You folks are so kind.....thanks so much for taking the time to offer your input which I'll pass along to Gail.
I used to own Corky and Gail just loved her and kept bugging me to buy her. When I bought this beautiful mare, something made me think she was in foal....thus had her ultrasounded. Much to the astonishment of the previous owners, she WAS BRED TO A QUARTER HORSE! They were under the assumption that such was an impossibility. She had a red bag birth....my first foaling ever. Because the foal was deprived of oxygen and brain damaged as a result, Corky rejected the colt and died three days later.
The day prior to her foaling, my beloved Tennessee Walker that I had always wanted since childhood, which I purchased two months previously, crossed the rainbow bridge as a result of EPM.
With these two deaths in the space of a few days, my heart was broken and cried for days. In the midst of mourning, I asked my husband to call Gail to take her, because seeing her in the pasture was a painful reminder.
Gail has taken excellent care of her and has been giving her beet pulp with a smidgen of grain and BOSS mixed in.....just like Qtr Raes taught me. Guess that's why her coat is so shiny.
I'll pass along the information to Gail and let her make a decision on whether to keep her here on "grass" or return her home where the pasture is a heavy alphalfa mix. By the way, she did founder once when Gail's spring pasture came up and has not had a recurrence.
Again, many thanks for your time.
Cindy