What is a Marestarer supposed to do?

Since discovering Mare Stare last year, I've spent more than fair amount of my time staring at foaling mares like the rest of the addicts there. There are so many mares to watch that the first three pages on the Foaling and Alerts segment are all different mares waiting on the big moment. As a 'watcher' it's hard to figure out which ones to keep your eye on and the descriptions dont always help.

Sometimes things get a little slow as far as foalings go even with that huge list of mares. It's the slow times where the real fun begins. There are a few hard cord addicts who can get the giggles over the whole situtation and the posts reflect that.

One such "slow" night the thread What is a Marestarer supposed to do? authored by bndranch was started on the Foalling and Alerts page. he thread pokes fun at the mare owners and our descriptions of the status of our mares. The following is one of the later posts from that thread. If you've ever been frustrated over waiting on a mare to foal, you'll relate and laugh at all of this thread.

Actually, I think the mods don't know where to put this thread either
This will help keep it here:
TEN WAYS TO INTERPRET FOALING ALERTS AND UPDATES:
1. GETTING READY/GETTING CLOSE = Mare is within 3 months of foaling and her belly looks funny
2. DUE = Give or take a month or two
3. BAGGING UP = Swollen between legs, not to be confused with No. 4
4. BAGGED UP = Swollen but noticeable to the naked eye.
5. BACK UP = Oops, that means the server is working again.
6. LOOKING INTERESTING = Mare is eating or laying flat sleeping
7. IN EARLY STAGES OF LABOR = it's hot, she's fat, baby's kicking the tar out of her
8.WAXED = This has a wide variance of "Saw some shavings and thought it was wax, to a small scab of wax, to a big ole honking glob of the stuff hanging down. This is the stage before No. 9 (well, duh, of course)
9. DRIPPING MILK, DRIPPING WHITE MILK (is there another color of milk?), STREAMING MILK If I tug real hard something comes out. Streaming means you only have to tug easy.
10. NOW = could be happening any minute...oops she got back up and started to eat again. Ah, saw her swish her tail...oops it was a fly. OK, I thought it was now. At this point revert back to No. 1 and start over.


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