05.29.08

New filly Jazz meets the world

Posted in Horses for the horse crazy at 2:17 pm by CT

Our friend CT announces the birth of Jasmine, born to her Arabian mare Gingee. Totally adorable!

Arabian filly Jasmine with momma mare Gingee

They are called Jaz and Gin!

This foal was Gingee’s first

here is CT’s description of the blessed event–

For all my planning, our planning, everybody’s planning, Gingee did it her way. My overnight bag was packed, the vet was put on alert, the barn staff was on a hair trigger. Every afternoon after lunch in the barn she is put in a pasture while the stall is being cleaned. By the time the barn worker returned from taking another horse out to the lower forty, there was the filly at 2:30 in the afternoon, naked in the blaring sun. As luck would have it, her vet was just down the street and two other vets were on their way because of other issues so everyone got to enjoy seeing a newly born without any of the anxiety.

Gingee had a lot of anxiety the first four hours. She just didn’t want the foal near her and had to be tranquilized. They milk pumped her and then tubed the milk into the filly. That kept the filly going until Gingee accepted her. I stayed with Gingee all night and held her head while stroking her mane and that really helped relax her when the foal started nursing. Slowly she began to become more and more fascinated by this little thing suckling by her side. By morning she wouldn’t let it out of her sight and insisted on hanging over it as it slept. Phew!

We’ve put the halter off and on Jasmine and she leads pretty well with a loose rope around her neck. Today I rubbed her all over with a crinkly plastic grocery bag. For that she nuzzled me! Whenever I’m massaging her, she wants to nuzzle my neck, arms, legs, anyplace I let her. Can you tell I’m crazy for her?

NOTE from connie:
Our mare was nervous to allow Gilford, her first, to nurse too… we had to restrain her and the vet tranquilized her when he came. Once she got the idea and the hormones got flowing, she turned in SUPERmom and was highly protective of HER baby towards her big friend Abby, who outweighed her by 500 pounds!

And the more handling the better, in my opinion. Our boys were well handled since a few minutes old, we did a moderate amount of imprinting at birth, and started training them to be handled and to wear a halter, lead etc. as soon as they were a couple days old. And may I suggest ponying beside Gingee to introduce her to the world, it will make your life and hers so much easier as she grows up!