http://americashorsedaily.com/double-trouble/ The Complete Source for All Things Horse Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:01:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://americashorsedaily.com/double-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-4532 Helen Ebner Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:55:07 +0000 http://americashorsedaily.com/?p=9918#comment-4532 We live in Australia & stand 2 imported stallions from the USA. At the end of 2007 breeding season , one of our mares (Eyes To Obvious) scanned empty and we decided to leave her till next season. She was turned out with our dry mares. As we had quite a few mares to breed we did not worry at the start of the season. However she got bigger and bigger and it was quite obvious that she was in foal. She joined the foaling mares and the alarm went off about a week before her due date. We were very surpised to deliver 2 chestnut fillies. They were small (both less than 20kg's) but feisty and were on their feet before the mare got up. It was a very interesting first night with a bewilderd mare (only her second foaling) and 2 exhausted breeders who needed to ride herd on 2 very energetic fillies. Apart from routine leg x-rays and a 3 week confinement to a small area, they have had NO intervention at all by humans except for 3 feeds a day for mum. No leg problems, excellent immune count, no dummy problems, no diahorrea. They are now 11 months old and rapidly catching up. When they were born they could walk under mum from front to back between her front legs. We live in Australia & stand 2 imported stallions from the USA. At the end of 2007 breeding season , one of our mares (Eyes To Obvious) scanned empty and we decided to leave her till next season. She was turned out with our dry mares. As we had quite a few mares to breed we did not worry at the start of the season. However she got bigger and bigger and it was quite obvious that she was in foal. She joined the foaling mares and the alarm went off about a week before her due date. We were very surpised to deliver 2 chestnut fillies. They were small (both less than 20kg’s) but feisty and were on their feet before the mare got up. It was a very interesting first night with a bewilderd mare (only her second foaling) and 2 exhausted breeders who needed to ride herd on 2 very energetic fillies. Apart from routine leg x-rays and a 3 week confinement to a small area, they have had NO intervention at all by humans except for 3 feeds a day for mum. No leg problems, excellent immune count, no dummy problems, no diahorrea. They are now 11 months old and rapidly catching up. When they were born they could walk under mum from front to back between her front legs.

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