indebtedfarms
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Precious finally carried a foal to term. She lost her last two at 9 months. So this year we gave her pneumabort shots and she carried for 320 days. She foaled last night. The foal died. Please read this whole post because I desperately need the advice of the forum. Her water broke and she started pushing. She would roll over and lay with all four feet straight in the air. She had a lot of water. She pushed and rolled a little for maybe 5 minutes. I reached in and felt a foot. I reached further and felt the head but not a second foot. She really started pushing and I couldn't get the other foot out. It was bent back at the knee but there seemed to be plenty of room so I helped pull the baby out. It appeared to be dead. Then it took a couple of breaths. So I gave mouth to mouth, held it upside down and cried and prayed. Once I stopped mouth to mouth, my husband tried, but it was no use. Our third little filly out of this mommy in three years was dead. She is 3 for 3. The cord was twisted really bad. Now for my questions.
1. Should I have pulled the minute the water broke?
2. Do you think it died because of the twisted cord or because I pulled with the foot back or because there was too much water and she swallowed it (there was a ton of water)?
3. Do you think this mare has something in it's make up that won't let her carry her foals?
4. Do you think that her laying on her back twisted the cord (The first foal she lost had a twisted cord too.)?
5. Would you breed her again? ( We only have 4 mares and this one had to have shots to carry to term. I know on big farms people probably wouldn't keep her because she's just too needy. My husband really wants to try her again but I don't know if I could handle it.)
I feel like I have not said everything I needed to but I didn't get any sleep last night. I hope I have said what I needed to to get some advice on this. What else could we have done to get a live foal?
Thank you in advance and I know you all are already saying prayers for Precious and for her little girl who would have been named Indebtedfarms Third Time's a Charm.
1. Should I have pulled the minute the water broke?
2. Do you think it died because of the twisted cord or because I pulled with the foot back or because there was too much water and she swallowed it (there was a ton of water)?
3. Do you think this mare has something in it's make up that won't let her carry her foals?
4. Do you think that her laying on her back twisted the cord (The first foal she lost had a twisted cord too.)?
5. Would you breed her again? ( We only have 4 mares and this one had to have shots to carry to term. I know on big farms people probably wouldn't keep her because she's just too needy. My husband really wants to try her again but I don't know if I could handle it.)
I feel like I have not said everything I needed to but I didn't get any sleep last night. I hope I have said what I needed to to get some advice on this. What else could we have done to get a live foal?
Thank you in advance and I know you all are already saying prayers for Precious and for her little girl who would have been named Indebtedfarms Third Time's a Charm.