50 Years!

Mark and I will be leaving for Connecticut early tomorrow morning. It is his 50th High School reunion. That meant there was much to arrange today for the next 4 days.  Of course the first problem was what to do with Zalena's colt. He was nursing well today but still has diarrhea. The best option was to take him to Hoerr vet clinic and that's what we ended up doing.
Dr. Hoerr was scheduled to arrive this morning but ended up with an emergency and didn't make it until after 1:00 pm.  Karin arrived around 10:00 am. We teased and covered Sheena then took her over to the cabin field as this was her 3rd cover. She has now been in for 6 days and will probably be out tomorrow. Rosaleigh was also teased but she said no. We only got 1 cover on her and that was on her foal heat. There isn't a good chance she settled but we will see.  We had Lily, her colt, Ayanna, her colt, Jewel, her filly and of course Zalena and her colt in the air conditioned stall barn while waiting for Dr. Hoerr. The colt was the first on the list and wouldn't you know he was up and even threw in a buck.

 He loves people, they give good scratches! He will follow us around like a puppy dog.  Dr. Hoerr checked him over and was pleased with his progress but just then he let out a big long squirt of very runny diarrhea.  Dr. Hoerr agreed since I wasn't going to be here it would be best to take him to his place.  

Next on the list was to ultrasound Jewel. She had her foal heat but we wanted to see where she was with this second. She had a 40 mm follicle and will need to be covered on Friday and if she still shows again Saturday night or Sunday morning.  Next he drew blood from Lily's colt for his coggins test and then Jewel's filly for her coggins test. Both foals were excellent barely flinching from the needle stick.  Lily was next, I knew it was probably too soon to ultrasound her but Dr. Hoerr found a 10 day embryonic vesicle so we will mark her pregnant.  Ayanna was the 3rd mare to be sonagrammed and she was also pregnant. Lacy, Mercedes mare, was sonagrammed last. She had an old CL, Dr. Hoerr was sure she had ovulated at least 2 weeks ago. She had no big follicles so Dr. Hoerr gave her a shot of prostoglandin  she should start maturing a follicle with that and she should be ready to breed in 5-6 days.  
As soon as Dr. Hoerr finished with the mares he helped us load up Zalena and her colt for the trip to Morton. As we were driving a text came in from a lady bringing a mare in to breed to Valiant that the mare was cycling and could she bring her today. She could have her here in an hour. We dropped off Zalena and her colt then beat her to the farm and she arrived a few minutes later. The mare did not show, but Mike will tease her in the morning. Karin and I loaded up Lily, Ayanna and the 2 colts and dropped them off at Middle Grove. They were glad to be back and took off running up the hill. No pictures it was too wet to drive in, we had 3 inches of rain during the night and this morning.  When I got home the stalls were cleaned and prepared for tomorrow morning. Mike is going to bring Rosaleigh and her filly inside in the air conditioned stalls in the morning as tomorrow it is predicted to be in the 90s and sunshine.  Rhoda is coming to check on them and Emma. Karin will be here Friday and Saturday. Emily sent a text that they may be bringing Jury over Friday to breed to Valiant. That meant a bale needed to be moved into the breeding shed which Mark did while I moved Foxy and Star with their foals back there opening up Lily's paddock. That will be 3 outside mares here.  Both stallions are going to be busy.