Lily had a filly this morning at 4am! She was restless all night and then we realised that she was starting to foal. I saw that there were two little hooves sticking out. I waited for her to lie down and then pulled the foal out as she pushed with her contractions. i had a horrible moment because the foal wasn't breathing and I dreaded that it might be dead. I cleaned it's muzzle and blew air into it's nostrils and it twitched. Then the rest of the foal came out and it wriggled! She was up on her very bandy legs within half an hour.

Another horrible moment was Lily standing on the foal. Poor Lily didn't know what had happened to her, she was in shock. However when we put a head collar on her and introduced her to her baby calmly, she realised straight away and they started nickering at each other.

Lily then got colic (bad tummy) this afternoon so the vet had to come out again. However she looked fine this evening. Kim was very overwhelmed when the foal was born, she was crying and shaking. It was really sweet, she loves Lily.

Anyway, this is Penny's blog! She has a milk reading of 200ppm tonight, so based on Lily's experience then she should foal on Sunday or Monday night - or on her due date, the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Keep watching this space!