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		<title>In Memory of Pam Jackson</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2008/10/in-memory-of-pam-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday evening October 11, my Dad called me as I was driving home to tell me that Pam Jackson &#8211; our friend, and a beloved friend to scores of people within and outside of the horse community &#8211; had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. I had seen Pam less than 2 weeks before this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dahlia&#8217;s new foal and the letter to my vet</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2008/05/dahlias-new-foal-and-the-letter-to-my-vet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I mailed off a letter to my vet, Heather Jenkins. She is a wonderful vet and has been great with our horses. She is practical, yet kind. Knowledgable and skilled, yet always open to learning more. We are lucky to have her. She helped me navigate some tricky waters yesterday and today I mailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Tara story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know I owe everyone more stories and videos from the stallion show, and I promise they will come. I have been traveling a lot lately and I am behind on everything. But now that the stallion show is over, all the breeders are pondering over what to do for the spring. What stallions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breeding season is winding down &#8211; and we have pregnant mares!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breeding horses is an expensive and stressful endeavor. Breeding Friesians (all artificial insemination, of course) is a true labor of love and dedication to the breed. After all, Friesians have not been culled based on fertility &#8211; we are lucky just to get one here. If a cow is not very fertile, it becomes hamburger. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just in case you thought horse breeding might be &#8220;fun&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2007/06/just-in-case-you-thought-horse-breeding-might-be-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mare Dahlia is not being very cooperative for breeding. Her cycles have been off, so I decided to incur the cost of taking her to the vet clinic for monitoring so I can get the timing just right for artificial insemination. She showed heat Monday and Dad loaded her on the trailer and carted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;milk test&#8221; &#8211; trying to cut down on all nighters during foal watch</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2007/06/the-milk-test-trying-to-cut-down-on-all-nighters-during-foal-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned a couple of entries ago, pregnant mares usually foal at night, and it is best if people are around, just in case something goes awry. Thus typically means many sleepless nights waiting on the mare to foal. Not surprisingly, this is not an activity most people look forward to, and there are lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Cori&#8217;s foal</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2007/06/waiting-for-coris-foal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average gestation period for Friesian horses is about 340 days. Ours usually have their babies a little earlier, but when Cori had her first foal in 2005, she delivered smack dab on day 340. That means this year she is due on June 18, but we have been assuming she may go before that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cori is pregnant!</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2006/05/cori-is-pregnant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 23:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coriander, my 6 year old Friesian broodmare, is pregnant. This is her 2nd foal, and she became pregnant after only one insemination. We are so happy and relieved! This should be a wonderful foal &#8211; the offspring of a top quality mare and one of the best breeding stallions in the world. If all goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Samson (sniff)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 21:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we have been boarding Samson and his owner picked him up today. Samson was Cori&#39;s first foal and he just turned 11 months old. I am glad I was not there when they picked him up &#8211; I would have been heartbroken to see him go. Dad said he walked right on the trailer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiltje had a colt!</title>
		<link>http://accidentalessayist.net/2006/04/hiltje-had-a-colt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, he was a couple of weeks early, which was a good thing because he is HUMONGOUS. He had trouble getting up, because he is HUMONGOUS, so he went to Va Tech for some TLC until he could build his strength up enough to lift his HUMONGOUS body. Even so, it took 6 people to [...]]]></description>
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