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Dayle has been kind enough to allow us to peek into her barn this foaling season since I have no babies arriving at my farm this year. Here is her lineup... 1) HHAA Bumbles - Due January ??, 2014 (separated from jack Feb. 24th, 2013)2)…Continue
Started by Heather Troglauer. Last reply by Dayle Haworth Jan 12, 2014.
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Great to see the little one romping outside. Sorry I haven't seen his name yet but he is a winner and a fighter along with all the women in his life.
Like the way Raven lifts her leg to show him where his lunch tray is when he misfires.She is a great mom.
Faven is doing a great job for a first time mom!
So glad to hear he is doing so well. Thanks for the explanation and education. It will most likely be useful info to store in our heads just in case it is needed. I am getting quite an education on breeding and foaling in preparation for our future breeding program. Thank you again.
Chantily is starting to look quite matronly (AKA pregnant)
Write those stories down in a diary when you've got time so you don't forget some of the details or record them on tape. And then, down the road, when you've got the time, the book will flow like honey on a warm summer's day.LOL! Seriously, there is a huge market out there for these stories/educational books. I know everyone on Barnmice would buy a copy and we'd all put out the word. I can hear the printing machines struggling now, trying to keep up with the demand.
Have a great and restful evening. You surely deserve it.
LOL would love to have time for a book Maureen. Someday....
Betty - no apologies needed. You weren't the only one and I should have posted ;)
Heather, I almost cried when I read of your experiences. It certainly is not all fun and games is it? You're my new hero. KUDOS!
I will remind you again about that book waiting to be written. It would be a fantastic read for anyone in the horse world. Just a thought...
Sorry Heather I should have looked more closely. I did note her coat was roughter (shedding more) but thought I hadn't looked well enough yesterday.Yearling explains a lot.As does her having had colic.Raising horses has it's share of needing to be on the lookout for trouble and nipping it in the bud doesn't it? Thank you for caring so much about them.Candy is sort of cute all bathed in shavings like that.
Betty, that's not Chantilly, that's a yearling named Candy who coliced this morning. She's not used to being in, and she has no food (colic = no food) so she's not happy. she is doing great and will go back out with her buddies tonight.
Maureen...our very first foaling was a red bag and luckily we had read and knew what to do. She had her 3rd foal recently and you know her as Dancer :) She was a redbag delivery for her mom Vicki.
Unfortunately no, our scariest delivery...hmmm...there have been two where the mare had to be drugged, hoisted in the air by our tractor so that the foal would slide back into the uterus and our vet could untangle it. In those instances we knew the foal was gone, but we were trying desperately to save the mom. They were scary. Last year Precious had a breech delivery - breech babies don't live, but she did. We thankfully knew my mare, Precious, well enough to know that there was something wrong and we immediately called the vet. We walked Precious until the vet arrived and she delivered our filly - our 2011 Sweepstakes winner, May. We were extremely lucky.
However...the scariest birth - was Will. "God's Will" born to Blessed Be last year. We knew immediately that he was oxygen deprived by the say he was acting. When we looked at the umbilical cord there was a 6" sausage shaped blood clot in the cord that had cut off his oxygen. We worked on him and lived in the stall with him for three days. We bottle fed him, wiped his butt, moved him to prevent sores and we tried so hard to give him some quality of life, but we finally made the touch decision to let him go.
So, while Will's birth was easy, his life was terrifying for us....and very sad.
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