The Foaling of Lily and Magic, April 4, 2008
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Double Magic Lady is a fantastic mare. She is definitely a
favorite and treasured girl bringing joy to all of us and
especially to my oldest daughter. It is the morning of April 2 and the milk is in enough to test. The four squares change in 45 seconds. That tells us we are 24-48 hours away from having another baby. Magic spends the day grazing alongside Dolly and her new baby in the sunshine. In the afternoon, she is bathed and loved on. I see Lisa holding Magic's belly and praying. Jessie and Lu (our Foreign exchange student) are so excited , they sleep on my floor below the monitoring TVs. Yet, no baby comes tonight! |
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April 3rd and we awaken to wax on
her teats! Even though we see some outward changes, I tend to
trust the calcium levels in the milk most of all. The strips are
down to changing in 20 seconds by this morning. At 1:15PM. the strips are changing in 4 seconds. We are having baby very, very soon. I am off to hook up the trailer! This mare is a favorite of ours and belongs to my oldest daughter. May the Lord deliver this one safely and keep momma safe!! |
April 4, 2008
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A crowd had gathered at our home knowing
that Magic's milk test strips were saying that she was ready to
foal. The monitoring TVs are in my bedroom, so that was the place to
be. Magic's camera was rotating between 3 stalls with a 5 second
pause on each stall. Because we knew Magic would foal within the
next few hours, one neighbor suggested that I freeze the camera on
Magic's stall. Sounded like a good idea....she was laying down and
getting up, laying down and getting up, etc. In one of the other
stalls was Dolly and her cute boy and in the other stall was Lily.
Lily was eating peacefully, and besides, she still had not expressed
any milk from her tight bag.
My bedroom has never had 16 people in it
all the same time. Whew!!! We needed an excuse to stop staring at
the TVs.
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| While we were still shaking our heads, thanking our Lord and celebrating Lily's birth, Lisa presents Magic's poop to me over the railing. Looked like cow pie! Oops, we'd better get the Betadine on the umbilicus and head out of the barn, so Magic can relax. Trekking up to the home, the excitement was obvious! Oh, and those cookies?? They finally just made it into the oven. |
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Bzzzzz, went the timer on the
cookies, but all was interrupted by Jessie appearing with
"Magic is pushing!" Lu cracked me up when she opened the
oven door and with a flustered face said, "I don't what to
do?!?!" My retort....was, "FORGET the cookies!!" All 16 of
us stealthily snuck down to the barn again. Yes! We are able
to capture Magic's entire delivery on camera. God painted my mare's baby just the right color for me with more white and He painted Lisa's mare's baby just the right color for her with more dark color. Magic had a beautiful black and white filly! The ring was wrong! Click here to watch a video of the birth. Magic's baby presented correctly at first, but then the second foreleg did not progress as quickly as the first one. It was getting hung up. We interfered right away, and put that leg back on track, and the birth progressed quickly and perfectly! |
| Some treasured moments occurred when 5 of the spectators told us that they had never seen a baby born before. The other treasured moment was when all of us held hands and Lisa thanked our Lord for the safe delivery! |
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Click here to see a video of the baby running at one day old! She is absolutely adorable! |
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Click here to read about the foaling of Lucky Four Real Doll
Click here to read about the foaling of Tibbs Morning Star
