Re: RC: Mares in Foal

[RhndLev@cs.com]

In a message dated 2/11/02 3:22:49 AM Central Standard Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<< Are there any pasture birth folks out there or do we all wait and wait and
 wait to have the baby dropped as soon as you decide to take a pee break? >>

That's exactly how most of my previous babies have been born.  And they 
lived!  I had a high dollar mare that I foaled out in a stall, but then 
turned her and the baby out in a barbed wire pasture within a day.  They 
lived and didn't have a mark on them.  I kept the filly on pasture for seven 
or eight months and then moved her to a show barn and within 24 hours had 
scraped her face all up.  Blessed are the Broodmares is FREAKING ME OUT.  If 
anything happens it's all my fault for not being observant enough or being 
too lazy to make the environment completely safe or . . .   ARGH

Rhonda