![]() Apparently cows are easier to detect pregnancies than horses.Routine/revealed ultrasound versus selective ultrasound/concealed: 11 trials including 37,505 women. The vet also talked about another horse whose blood test came back iffy and foaled 3 days later. Seems to me the dominant animal is usually the fattest, but I don't think that's a very scientific theory to account for a big belly. On the plus side Confetti the non bred mare has become the dominant horse and is noticeably thinner than Violet, though both are well padded. It looks like I'm going to have to wait till the middle of August to completely time out. I asked her what kind of odds she put on being pregnant and she said 60/40. Both horses have an edema near their teats and the other one has never seen a stallion though her swelling is much smaller. She checked her teats and said she got a drop of milk out, but that isn't uncommon for a horse up to two years after foaling. As for the pregnancy, she thought the horse was too small to safely sonogram. The horses and cat got vaccinated and my cow cow got looked at. Jerseyrose Well, the vet came out and essentially nothing happened. Kind of like a snappy toy dog you want to drop kick, that has no idea they are pint size pain in the rear. Cows knocks her over and she lays stunned for a second then gets back up and starts trying to dominate again. She is the kind of horse when you are trying to drive through the gate she runs forward, you chase her away get back in the car and back she comes. On a side note, Confetti totally behaves when I'm nearby. I think Violet is bagging up so I need to make a quick decision. Violet was in her teens when I got her and never stalled. About a year ago I tried to get her used to being stalled and she hated every minute. ![]() Given the choice of leaving Violet with Confetti in a small paddock of about a 1/4 acre or a bigger field with 2 large cows and their young calves and 2 mini cows which would be better? Or lock her in a stall? I do have a big dry stall. That said the cows are a gentle group who I think will leave her alone. Violet panics in a stall and is afraid of the cows. I loathe to leave Violet alone as we have had dog attacks in the past. She also nipped the farrier in the face, who fortunately pinched her back. Confetti is super aggressive with cows and has been rude to visiting college age girls reaching out to bite and turning butt on them. I think Confetti might be in heat but I'm not sure. Not totally ferocious just bratty to the max. Confetti is bumping into her, biting her neck and little kicks. Now Confetti her young stablemate is harassing her. If this horse foals OK it will one of those miracle of birth moments for me. I'm in that holding your breath, can't relax fully state that lasts until everyone safely calves. On that trip my DH immediately drove back, solved the problem then drove back to get me. She said, "I think the cow is dead but it mooed." We had just got into the town we were visiting 12 hours away and sitting down to dinner in a restaurant. My other DH has advance engineering degrees, on another trip I got the dreaded call. She was too afraid to struggle with the goat and push her forward to get. Nothing like walking a crying daughter with a hammer how to disassemble a manger to free a goat. I told her you are it, there isn't someone to call. One trip back to visit family 10 hours away I got a call from my DH saying a goat got her horns caught in a manger and a thunder storm was starting. One day 4 cows all calved together, one cow didn't clean and so on. My fencing got several holes in it from a storm and the cows kept getting out. I had thought I could take her sight seeing. Every single day of her two week visit there was either a major or minor cow emergency. ![]() A while back I got my mom to visit, first time in years.
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