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Good thoughts! Thanks everyone. He had his first day in the paddock today, just for a few while I cleaned the stall. His momma was happy to get a run and show him off to her buddy who immediately claimed the role as second mom. My little bay mare has been almost constantly by the stall watching...

I think that your mare is a silver bay, not a palomino - that'll change your calculations! She is super pretty. Ets: oops, I see elizabeth just mentioned that too.

What a pretty girl! Happy foaling! I'm so glad that your giving the stallion a new lease on life, too. Poor guy.

Oh wow! Its always something with them. For sure on the not getting enough in the beginning. They had some trouble figuring out the feeding (maiden mare) and we ended up syringing him for the first 12 hours. His name is Honiton :)

You're right! I have had horses for 20 years and I still got stumped by a cold foal who might be a little allergic to the straw LOL. Oh well, it is far better than missing something, waiting to long and loosing one. I hope all goes well for you and your mare, how exciting!

SO relieved. Plus. Yesterday he would barely open his eyes, he didn't seem to look and follow movement. He just looked... asleep! He had a little eye goop that I was cleaning. My husbands allergies have been kicking his butt since this foal has arrived. He wondered if there was something with...

Just because he is to cute not to share, even if he is causing me sleepless nights ;)❤

Update: He continued to sleep all day and shake/shiver. He would get up to nurse, poop or pee and went directly back down. He would paw, kick, yawn, stretch and constantly shiver. He just didn't seem right to me and he seemed uncomfortable. It ended up about 60*f yesterday, he was under the lamp...

I do not think that its good either. I ended up cutting the foal saver blanket shorter, pinning it on and taping the pins, FREQUENTLY checking on him. I thought that would warm him up, snugged in the straw, in a blanket, under a heat lamp but he has just shivered all the more. In the past two...

Yes! However now I am on to worrying about him shivering. It is 52*f and not a bit windy, he is tucked into clean dry straw under a heat lamp and hasn't stopped shivering all morning.

Thanks! Pitter - near by! We're in Fife Lake. I just thought about a dog coat this morning, I am going to look for one. He is baking under a heat lamp this morning (under observation) and doing just fine. I wish I would have thought more about it and had a smaller blanket made. I am just...

We had a little colt born last night. I thought that I was totally prepared having a heat lamp and a SStack mini foal saver blanket on hand but it is WAY to big for him. I tried it for a few minutes early this morning and he just gets tangled up in it. I thought about pinning it but that seems...