Live webcam of shire mare giving birth

[Pixel]

[[www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13771099

hope this works]]

This thread has taught me something, I had never realised just how boring being a pregnant horse could be. No last minute shopping, no packing of bags or checking of birth plans, nothing. Just standing in a box (literally) for hours on end.

She does look pretty bored too doesnt she.

Maybe some one could make her a massive batch of raspberry leaf tea to fill her water bucket with.

Or a nice hot curry?

No foal. Shes out of her stable right now. Looks like someone has given her a nice deep bed too.

WTF, I went and looked elsewhere, cam eback and the webcam is showing a bloody pig!

Well the pig is expected to have babies soon (and piglets are so very, very cute), ahead of Queenie having her foal.

I suppose it makes a change.

I think Queenie should be made to build a flat-pack wardrobe to start off labour. It worked for me.

Pixel you have made me :) on a truly rubbish day, I thank you!

the pig moved

and she's gone somewhere for more privacy perhaps [grunt]]

You go away for a few days and a horse turns into a pig, the pig def is sleeping all day, got more out of the horse

We want Queenie! We want Queenie!

The pig is boring. (sorry pig but you are).

The comments say that they are not expecting the foal for another 3-4 days

i can't even get pigs now

Pig is back.
(am I really horrid that I immediately thought of back bacon?)

Actually I do really like pigs, we used to have a pair of berkshires sharing a barn where we were renting stables. They would stand up with their little front trotters over the half door so that we could scratch their ears for them.

Pigs were back for me, but now it just says off air

Queenie is back online, there is a foal

But it is still in here

Is it just me or is she looking bigger today?

Also she could do with a few more bales of straw down.

oooh ohh ohh the lady is putting down loads of hay/straw stuff. is this it then? citing!

I just came here to say theres someone in there now putting a load of new straw down for her.

No probably not "it" yet, shes just putting her a nice thick bed down for the night.

imagine having a great big kicky long-legged foal inside your tummy

i bet it's more painful than having a human baby in there

I know, foals are all leg so mid way through it must hurt like hell, I expect they are a lot more squashed up towards the end so dont kick with their full leg iykiwm.

Update video here. They don't seem to expect much for a couple of days.

when we were up in Suffolk we went to a farm and saw a Suffolk Punch foal

she was only 5 weeks old or something and she was just enormous! i mean, obviously mum was quite big too, but even so... she was like a horse with foal proportions.
it did make me wince

Sullfolk punches are huge arent they. I wonder if they are still as big as they used to be now that they are not bred for farming and work?

How high was the foal?