If you’ve never heard of Mare Stare, now’s the time to tune in. Breeding farms around the worlds have live video cameras installed that allow viewers to watch their mares in foal and to experience the wonder of birth and babies.

On line “buttons” allow viewers to alert the farm owners/managers if they see a mare starting to foal (or in distress).

This year I noticed that there were several dog breeders on the site as well as horses.

To get a sense of which cams to tune into, you can look a their Foaling Alerts and Updates page. If you missed the action, there is also a page of replays.