We had another terrible loss this morning. Midnight, whose due date was in question, went into labor this morning at 9 a.m. She is a maiden mare, and had very little bag. Part of the placenta presented first, and it was also a bad dystocia. The foal was completely backwards. The vet had to be called again, he had a tough time with the delivery and ended up delivering the entire placenta first. The filly was so tiny that even pulling her back feet first was not that hard to do. She didn't even have hair :-( I'm sorry this is so graphic everyone, I'm still in shock. In all the years and over a hundred foals I've assisted in being born, never have I ever seen so many complications and such a high mortality rate.
Luckily, Midnight seems to be doing well so far. We will keep a close eye on her, keep her on antibiotics and banamine and pray for healing.
We are now 2 live and 3 that were not. I sure hope our last two mares will be ok, one is due in a few weeks and all I can do is pray really, really hard.
