With the utmost efficiency at 1.30am - the foaling alarm went off and in the time it took to put my dressing gown and boots on and get to the foaling paddock (about two minutes) Gemma had delivered a bay filly. This little girl takes after her Mum for not wasting any time, in that she was on her feet ten minutes after birth, cantering at half an hour old and bucking by the time she got to an hour old. She did take a bit longer to get the hang of feeding despite her mothers efforts to show her where to look. However she got that sorted out by 3am and we went back to bed.
That is (hopefully) the end of the night watches for the season. Not before time, Gemma has kept us guessing for weeks and the other night got me up seven times between midnight and 6am with her moonbathing antics setting off the foaling alarm. (Had I known she was going to have so little problem I'd have left her to it!)
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