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17.05.2015 13:01

And number 2

Yesterday morning when we checked our foalmares, there still was no second foal, but we could see wax on Ögn's udder, which is a sign that it won't take too long (mostly between 24 and 48 hours) until the foal will be born. Most mares give birth during the night, so we decided to stay awake and try to watch.

Around 6.30, when we went home from the stable, she was still eating, just the way she was around 2 hours later, when we drove by on our way to put the ridinghorses into the stable. Still no signs of an oncoming birth 30 minutes later, so we stopped by our vet's stable, had a chat and some coffee. At about 22.30 we went back to our stable to feed the horses and could see, that Ögn had herself separated from the group. We already got ourselves comfortable with checking on her a few times during night, but in the end, there was no need to do that as she had started to be in labour. Our vet and his wife stopped on their way home, when they saw what was going on and so it was the four of us watching her. Hjördís and Ingólfur's father arrived shortly after she started and observed what was going on.

As the foal was rather big Ingólfur had to help a bit and dragged the foal out and in front of Ögn, so she could start cleaning it. She was rather tired, but after a moment she started to lick her little black colt.

He was, just like his dad, a bit clumsy in the beginning and didn't manage to get up straight away (I wouldn't either with all these long legs being tied together), but when we left he stood.
If you'd like to see the whole birth, have a look here.