in today's video we're gonna cover the reality of waiting for foal it's painful
if you're new here my name is brandi and I'm Jason my husband Jason and this is
our horse nika my horse my horse this is our horse this channel is all about
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miss anything pregnancy just like with humans with any
species I guess has been kind of a interesting so oh it's funny it's like
I've been watching this mirror for weeks and weeks and weeks and you know as
those of you who have been following this journey with us um you've seen how
she's been acting in all the different signs and we swore she was having this
baby like a week ago maybe even longer just like so what I think happened is
when she was very uncomfortable and acting like she was going to do labor I
think what was really happening is the baby was turning to get the position
that's just my thoughts because I have a mom I've been there before and I know
what all that feels like and it's pretty miserable and so I'm like if this I feel
exactly like I did have children we're pretty it's
different but it's not pretty helpless nothing I can do right sides watch the
anxiety and the frustration and then I'm in the same boat because now I'm like
the one sitting and watching and we adore this horse so much and we're
watching her go off through all these things and it's like ah we can't do
anything to help no like if you I could take you on a side by side and take you
in a rough road and we could try and make that happen that works by the way
that absolutely works that works twice yeah we're twice took me for a bumpy
ride and so I don't know maybe we can lower the trailer so for cruise I've
been running up to the barn constantly trying to you know just catch this mare
having her full and I am a kind of exhausting myself so now I'm sick so I
paid the price so I've really tried to back off and stop making those
late-night visits to the barn and I just carried a letting nature take its course
so I apologize if we don't catch it on video we're gonna try our best but we've
thought about ways yeah try and do it problem is is it's far enough from the
Wi-Fi source but we can't get specific cameras that'll tie into it so there's a
lot of like challenges with trying to do that black baby monitor which are your
honors don't go through steal fun fact don't work unless you're close enough
yes yeah so anyway we're thinking about
looking into try to figure out camera things but it's basically we have so
we're going old-fashioned right now and just checking on her but I'm trying to
back off so I don't like get sicker fun fact though horses have been having
babies for like thousands of years without a camera that's a fact
yeah but YouTube so comment below if you want me to
make me go out to the barn comment below if you want to see video of this baby
being born because I'm trying really hard here folks I'm trying and I need
some likes and some comments to make that happen
cuz I don't want to do it yeah he doesn't want to do it but he could
probably be convinced we don't know this mares due date she was pastor bred and
so my friend Katie and I and many of you know Danny the horse girl if you don't
know Danny the horse girl be sure to go and check out her channel like right now
she has an awesome channel and they have two bears that are also due to have
babies and we don't know the exact dates so her one bear um was ham bread so I
think she's got dates figured out better on that one but you'll have to check
that on her channel to see her updates because I don't remember what it is the
other bear was bred at the same time as this bear they were dropped off and put
in the pasture together so but that bear is not showing nearly
the Emotiv sign is this what is but her other biggest so what I want to know
which mirror do you think is gonna have their full first is it gonna be Nica or
is it gonna be Nikki or is it gonna be special so since we don't know the
actual due date I can't tell you that the gestation period for a horse is 320
to 380 days with the average being around 3:30 so we dropped them off the
end of May to be bred and picked them up the beginning of October pretty sure she
took right away cuz when we have her ultrasound done in the fall the vet said
that she looked like she was pretty far along like she was guessing that we had
an April baby on her hands but that would be early so basically what I've
been doing since I don't know an exact due date for this mirror and that means
ever exact with babies anyway they come whenever they feel like it but I have my
three point inspection testing that I've been doing every day and basically that
is I check out her belly so we're gonna bring her forward a little bit so he can
see her belly I check out the status of her belly and
she's really pretty low right now and she's even like
rippy looking up here and then the next thing that I check is I check her bag
and then the third thing I check is her bomba I just check and see if that's
really the best that I could do and I've been in constant contact my bet we don't
have any experience of breeding our own horse
we've dealt with a lot of babies at other places that we have worked but
this is our first personal foal so it's just different so I really appreciate
the positive comments so I personally want to thank you so much for all of
your positive comments it's really meant a lot to me this is a really stressful
time for us we're super excited but we're worried we're anxious where we're
all these different emotions and everybody that's around here is super
excited for this baby and now I'm getting messages from people in Scotland
in the Netherlands and Australia and all over the world that are just like yeah I
can't wait to see that baby and giving me really great really great feedback I
absolutely love it and so I'll keep I'll make sure to keep putting updates out
there so you know what's going on I'll do them as often as I can
you can also check out my Instagram to check out versatile horsemanship on
Instagram I do post quite often on there as well so it took us ten years to do
this to make this decision and we're super excited about it we've got it took
me so long to research fighting just the perfect stallion for this bear you know
this bear means so much to us we've had her for 18 years
she was actually well he's he's had her
so we weren't even married yet he bought this horse before we were even married
as a yearling and she was actually born on the farm that we own now so that's
kind of cool but there's so much risk that is
involved with breeding that we just really put it off and put it off and
then last last year just like saying okay let's just do it we neither need to
do it now or we don't do it all but finding the perfect
daleon was so important to me because I want to have the best quality foal that
I possibly can get out of this awesome mirror so she's 19
she'll be 19 this month and Katie's mare is the same age and it's both their
first time false so the one special the one that was bred with Nika she's had
one other fall before but Nicki and mica are both baby bears so that'll be really
interesting to see how that goes and the whole purpose behind wanting to
breed her for one we want a we want offspring from this horse but I want a
full to start from scratch I have started 30 to 40 horses in my life but
I've never started one from a foal that I bred and raised and did all that so
I'm really excited to have that opportunity and that's really why why we
decided to do this because you know we all know there's a million horses in the
world that we could have tomorrow if we wanted but I want one that I made all
the decisions on myself and did all the work so what color do you think I don't
know I don't know what color this is gonna be so if you haven't seen the
daddy go back and look at the previous videos and I'll make sure to link those
here too but I really think that I just I kind of had a vision that I'm gonna
end up with a chestnut with Chrome so white legs and oh wait I think it's
gonna have a white glaze no matter what color it is they really do I feel like
there's me white but I think there's me white legs too and I'm thinking chestnut
or like a darker color of some sort what do you think so this is this is like
emotional for me right because it's like full circle yeah so when it was time for
Jason to actually get a horse he said well I want one that looks like trigger
and I'm like no you can't do that like you're not gonna find one that looks
like trigger that's just not gonna happen
so it doesn't just happen except for the fact that you get the horse that you
want like the horse like the mind the body the the confirmation all that stuff
and you get the color that you think is cool it doesn't happen
so then just goes to show that you just need to have good expectations and you
too can have what you want so we just happened to find a horse of the age of
disposition and the bloodlines the conformation all that that he wanted and
it just happened to be a palomino that look like trigger because I mean you got
to remember what I bought this horse I was broke in college and I could not
afford her in fact I had to pay for this horse on payments yes true story over
the course of like a year and a half yeah two years and so like yeah I just
it happened that way yeah but to back to your thinking the reason it's emotional
Brandy's horse died and he was dying throughout the whole time that she was
pregnant and I had to take care of the horse by myself and he was an amazing
horse and there's videos of pokey yet because I can't talk about it yet it's
been almost seven years and they still can't talk about it
so so for me I was kind of faced with that and I loved her is that it's either
gonna be in Palomino or polka was a bay and I think it would be a bay well and
pocos birthday is May 5th and he would have been 33 this year so so who knows
maybe she'll wait and have a baby on May 5th and have it on pocos birthday maybe
it'll be a bay that'd be super cool but I don't know either way you know it's
it's gonna be it's it's all right right you have no idea like if you're breeding
Friesians you pretty sure you're gonna get a black horse even when you have
babies we're pretty sure that we knew what our kids were kind of gonna look
like but with with this horse it's like had
no idea what color it's gonna be so it's kind of cool and we also had ultrasound
to find out the gender of our babies and with this we have no idea if it's where
girl so there's a lot of surprise this year I think it's gonna be a cool myself
I do yeah what do you think I think it's be in there so we'll see what happens
that'll be really interesting so well by the way the baby that's in there is also
mine that's a fact since the papers the papers will states
that it's mine the papers are in his name so the baby
is going to be in his name and I will hear about that for the rest of my life
so and so yeah so I have some training expectations I better be trained
appropriately I do have to say with that though a lot of people have been asking
me hey are you planning on using it for a lesson horse it's gonna be in your
program what are the thoughts and no like I had said my plan is this foal is
going to be something that I want to Train from day one and bring up two
paces but I'm planning on it being a personal horse of either mine or his and
our families at least in so we'll see what goes from there but we really don't
know until we meet it what kind of job that this horse is gonna be appropriate
for it its life so but we're just gonna go with it so with all that being said I
want to know what color do you think it's going to be and I want to know what
gender you think it's gonna be I'm really excited to hear what everybody
has to say and then also you know we're still thinking about names
I I get a few things that I thought of I really like I really love the movie How
to Train Your Dragon and I have been looking at names on there it is gonna
cool it will be born toothless but no so those are the kind of things I
like I like unique thing well thank you so much for being part of this awesome
journey we're really excited to share it with you and if you want to continue to
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