She's Here!!!

Yep, we have a filly. She is really cute. She was born early this morning. We got the call about 5 am.

I am too slow taking pics. The foal was being really cute with kid #3, but I clicked too late.

Springtime in Wyoming

No Foal Yet, Fortunately. It was -8 degrees Farenheit last night. Not celcius -- Farenheit. That is freaking cold. I thought for sure that since the roads were packed with snow and it was miserable out, that she would finally foal, but nope. No baby.

But this is a view from my steering wheel(after all of that snow. I had to dig out just to get to the truck.

Foxy was not posing well today. She wanted to play with the camera.


Once again, the camera was not in my hand right when I needed it.
I let Foxy play indoors while Kid #1 rode Belle. Then I turned the girls loose outside to get some sun. The first thing they did was to find a snow drift and make snow angels. They love the snow. Belle prancing all through the snow and laid down with her legs tucked up under her. It was really weird looking, but, of course, no camera at that point.

This might be the closest prediction that I would like Outlaw to look like.


But what I would really like is for him to look like his uncle --

New Theory

We came up with a new theory today. Foxy has only had fillies. She has always been right around her due date. She is late. She must be having a colt, so she is keeping him tucked in longer to give him a better start because males have a tougher time in the first weeks of life (bizarre but researched phenomenon).

It's an idea, at least, but not really a theory.

She's waiting until Friday, though. Jackson is a lot farther away than Green River. I'm screwed. Oh, well, such is life.

You guessed it, I'm still waiting.

Nothing yet, but I do have more pictures.

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Okay, which of the five do you prefer?

Still No Foal!

I really should not be impatient. Foxy really is due today. I conveniently forgot that because I figured that she would foal while I was out of town. I just hope that she doesn't wait for this weekend while I am driving to a science conference in Jackson. That would seriously suck.

I finally just scanned the pics in at home, instead of the fast scanner at school. As the Esteemed Slave Driver would say, Better One, or two, or etc?


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Now, don't judge on their coloring abilities or lack thereof. Think only of the whether or not the markings are realistic or just appealing to you. Once Outlaw is born, I will try and match up one of the pics, or at least the one that is closest.

No Foal yet

NO Foal yet, but I did survive the State Chess Championships. . . barely. We took home three individual trophies and three team trophies, so we represented well. Kid #2 and #3 were two of the individual trophies and the team, so they are happy. I checked up on Foxy a million times. My sainted husband was fairly nice about it but when I called while he was stacking hay, he seemed a but fed up with the calls. I know that he would call, but I am paranoid.

Today, Foxy did not finish her hay. Her udder is distended like a milk goat that someone forgot to milk. She is so miserable that she did not even buck around with Belle today when Belle was having a bucking fit. It is supposed to snow -- depending on whom you care to believe -- 3-7 inches or 6-10 inches in the next 24 hours, so I expect theat baby at any time.

I am still trying to get the scanned pics to load of my students' predictions. They are the wrong type of file, so I might just take pics of them and upload them that way. If I even make it to school tomorrow.

Foxy's Birthday

Today is Foxy's Birthday. She is eleven years old. For her birthday, she received a vigorous grooming from her favorite people; namely kid #1, Kid #2, and Kid #3. She also received a juicy apple. Unfortunately, for her, she is still in foal. After much discussion, there is a consensus that Foxy will have the foal Sunday or Monday. We are supposed to have a huge change in the weather on Sunday with Snow on Monday. She looks about ready, but probably not today or tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the State Chess Tournament, so I am really hoping that it won't be tomorrow because I really want to work on the imprinting.

I am trying to upload some of the pictures that my students made of their predictions for the foal, but they don't seem to want to upload. I will try again tomorrow. Some are really nice markings.