Farm Update

All is well around the farm this AM. The kids finally came to an agreement on a name for Lady's baby. With 4 girls that can become very challenging. I really liked Helga but they all compromised with Heidi. So for the record the official barn names for Missy's filly is Lucy and Lady's baby is Heidi. Both of these fillies are exceptional. Not sure of anything I would change on either one of them at this point except I would have loved for Lucy to have a white spot. Ha! I will continue to take pictures of them and put them on the foal pages for everyone to see how they are growing.

Fixation is due February 2nd. She is progressing well. Fixation had an accident this summer and cracked her pelvic bone. When we purchased her she had a dropped pelvic from a previous injury. Just so happened that the injury was to the same side. After the injury she was stalled for over 3 months and we expected her to lose the baby. She held her pregnancy but has been very slow to completely recover. She gets around very slowly and I don't antipate we will breed her again. So we will be on pins and needles through this delivery. It has been a long road for Fixation and she has been the easiest patient. She is one tough mare and we intend to make life a pleasure for her after she gets this foal raised. She is a TB mare and is bred to Eric and Deb Jarvis's Stud I Got Charisma. We look forward to the resulting foal.

Well that's all for now. I will keep everyone posted.

Mark

Pictures

Lady and her baby. 2 days old.

Picture of Lucy

Here is a picture of Lucy. 2 weeks old. I will have more pictures on the foal page this weekend.

Some photos of Lady and her foal

Here are a couple of pics of Lady and her beautiful foal. More to follow!

Lady update

Well if you missed Lady foaling I can only tell you I did to. Checked her this AM and she looked like she was making some progress. Checked her in the pasture an hour later and she had a little wax. I thought in my mind we had a couple more days. Well I checked her again at 12:00 and I noticed from a distance that Lady had 2 many legs. She had already foaled and the baby was trying to nurse. The baby is absolutely stunning!! They are in the foaling stall now and will be for several more days.

Lady did not like all the talk of so many people wacthing.

Mark

Lady update

Although Lady is making some progress it is very slow. Her bag continues to get larger but still has not shown any signs of wax. I will update the news page when I begin to see some more progress.

Mark

Lady update

Lady is making steady progress. I still think she is 2 to3 days out. Her teats are filled in now but no wax yet. I will update this blog this evening when we bring I bring her up.

Mark

Farm Update

All is well around the farm...for now anyway. Missy is getting a little more comfortable being a mom. We moved her to a stall next to Fixation last night and she was just sure Fixation wanted her baby. Poor Fixation was as far from Missy as she could get and and that still did not make Missy any happier. She finally calmed down and realized no one wants what she is got...She is stuck with it herself.

We got in a semi load of Alfalfa yesterday. One of my favorite things to do. It was 730 bales of most beautiful green hay you have ever seen. Hay is getting very difficult to find these days with the drought everywhere. I will still need 2 or 3 loads before June so I will be on the lookout. This was my last load from John. He has never ran out this early before!!

Lady is up in the foaling stall. She is not on pace for her due date of 1/14/2006. Her bag is building and she is making progress but......She usually progresses quickly so I will keep you all posted. The last 2 foals she has foaled before 7 PM. Keep your fingers crossed.

Mark

Farm Update

Well things have settled down quite abit since Missy had her baby. It is amazing how much better we feel after getting a couple full nights of sleep. I know there are others of you who feel the same way. Missy and Lucy are doing very well. Missy did very well having her first baby. No problems at all. It is taking her a little longer to get the hang of this motherhood thing. She has gone from wondering how that thing got in her stall to not wanting anyone to even look at her baby. She is very protective and has turned out to be very good mommy.

Lucy: Other than not having any color we could not be happier with Lucy. She has the pedigree, correctness, and pretty to be a great mare. She comes from a long line of great producing mares as well so she should have a promising future of being a show mare and a future broodmare for someone. She has a very pretty head, a short back, and she is very strong through her croup and hocks. I have not seen such croup and hocks on a one day old before. I will get some pictures of her up in the week ahead.

Lady is next. She is due on the 14th but seems to have a ways to go. We have foaled her 4 times and she is consistently on her due date. We'll bring her up the first of next week. She had an incredible stud colt last year. Max is at Ted Turners and will be shown this year.

We really appreciate all the e-mails and calls from many of our new friends around the World. The internet makes it feel like we all live in a small community together.

Thanks again to everyone and I will keep you posted.

Mark

Missy and Filly

Missy has had a gorgeous filly! This girl is huge, which I wasn't expecting with Missy being a maiden mare. She is all legs, but seems to slowly be getting the hang of it. The filly has an amazing head, and the sweetest brown eyes. Even though she didn't have any color, she is built just like her daddy, short back, good hocks, and tall. I can't wait to see this girl grow up, she is going to be beautiful We will post pictures in the next few days.

Thanks,
Mark

Missy

Hello everyone,

Nothing new to report. Though when we brought Missy up this evening her bag was dripping milk. Yesterday was her due date. Excitement is overcoming my patience, I can't wait to see the foal.

Thanks for watching,

Taylor

Web Cam viewing problems

They made changes to the stream today. If you are having problems; when you see the error message, clear the error message and press F5 if that does not work do control key F5. If you are on AOL minimize AOL and log onto the web via internet explorer and you should be able to view the cam.

E-mail me if this does not work. mark@harpolefarms.com

Mark

Missy

Well, not much new to add. Everything seems to point to go except the baby. I guess it will come when it's ready. Missy ate well this morning and was ready to go outside. She seems to be moving around the pasture normally. She continues to have new wax forming and her bag is ready for a baby. We have no choice but to wait and see. We appreciate everyone's help in watching. If you do see her foaling don't hesitate to call my cell phone if you do not see us. As Taylor so affectionately stated I have slept through a birth or 2. Since I was wrong on my birth date I will go on record that Missy will have a loud colored Chestnut filly with blue eyes.

Also, Dr. Spencer came by today to remove Fixations caslicks and I had him look at Missy. He thought she looked good and the only thing he committed to was; "She is pregnant." He did say with a maiden mare you just never know. So for what it is worth I think we have some waiting to do.

Thanks again.

Mark