joylee123
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[SIZE=12pt]I'm just so sad to write this. I just had a feeling this year would be my year to deal with something bad
Too many easy years
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Thursday evening around 7:30, my little mare Happy Tails Exceptional Gossip (Precious) started to get fidgity ( on camera) I had been watching her and hanging out with her all day as the milk check strips were changing from rust to orange I sat quietly in my chair as she began her process of getting up and down and acting as though she was trying to position the foal. All seemed fine.
Precious finally laid out flat and began to push. Nothing came out. I got up and knelt behind her and after another minute of her not producing anything I lubed, gloved and went in. Something didn't feel right I opened her up as well as possible and there was a red bag. OK no big deal. I had every thing I needed and opened the red bag and reached in to find the sac and help guilde the feet and head out. No feet or head
I reached way in and felt a tail and butt. I tried to push the foal back to give me a little room to try and reposition the leg but I just couldn't manipulate it.
All the time I knew it was a red bag and the poor foal was going to sufficate. I called the vet who was there in 20 minutes as they are 20 miles from my place. While she was enroute I kept trying to manuever the legs from up under the foal. Maybe if someone had been there I could have gotten her up on her feet and had enough room to get a leg up but that was not to be.
The vet arrived and she gave Precious a shot to help with the pain. She said we would probably be looking at C-section but she thought she'd give it a try. After about 25 minutes she got one leg out then a few minutes later the other one. It still took several minutes after that to pull the foal.
It was a pretty little buckskin and white filly foal. My vet told me she had never seen a true breech birth, that it was 1 in 500 (don't know if that holds true with miniatures though
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Poor Precious was just plain worn out. She was such a trooper through all of it. She was shaky and cold and I covered her with two coolers and two winter blankets, got her a warm bucket of water and a warm mash. I gave her an oral dose of banamine at about 4am as she seemed to be uncomfortable once the drugs had worn off.
We left the foal with her overnight and buried her the next morning. She seemed to understand. She would look for her foal a little frantically then stop and stand there. She has a good appetite and doesnt seemed depressed, I started her on a course of Tucaprim just to be safe. I'll let her back out with her buddies tomorrow. The vet seems to feel, she will be ok and should suffer any permanent effects. Guess I won't either as broken hearts mend
The little filly was by Tami's lovely stallion, Arions Playboy Destiny. She was my little futurity girl....
Thanks for listening,
Joy
Thursday evening around 7:30, my little mare Happy Tails Exceptional Gossip (Precious) started to get fidgity ( on camera) I had been watching her and hanging out with her all day as the milk check strips were changing from rust to orange I sat quietly in my chair as she began her process of getting up and down and acting as though she was trying to position the foal. All seemed fine.
Precious finally laid out flat and began to push. Nothing came out. I got up and knelt behind her and after another minute of her not producing anything I lubed, gloved and went in. Something didn't feel right I opened her up as well as possible and there was a red bag. OK no big deal. I had every thing I needed and opened the red bag and reached in to find the sac and help guilde the feet and head out. No feet or head
All the time I knew it was a red bag and the poor foal was going to sufficate. I called the vet who was there in 20 minutes as they are 20 miles from my place. While she was enroute I kept trying to manuever the legs from up under the foal. Maybe if someone had been there I could have gotten her up on her feet and had enough room to get a leg up but that was not to be.
The vet arrived and she gave Precious a shot to help with the pain. She said we would probably be looking at C-section but she thought she'd give it a try. After about 25 minutes she got one leg out then a few minutes later the other one. It still took several minutes after that to pull the foal.
It was a pretty little buckskin and white filly foal. My vet told me she had never seen a true breech birth, that it was 1 in 500 (don't know if that holds true with miniatures though
Poor Precious was just plain worn out. She was such a trooper through all of it. She was shaky and cold and I covered her with two coolers and two winter blankets, got her a warm bucket of water and a warm mash. I gave her an oral dose of banamine at about 4am as she seemed to be uncomfortable once the drugs had worn off.
We left the foal with her overnight and buried her the next morning. She seemed to understand. She would look for her foal a little frantically then stop and stand there. She has a good appetite and doesnt seemed depressed, I started her on a course of Tucaprim just to be safe. I'll let her back out with her buddies tomorrow. The vet seems to feel, she will be ok and should suffer any permanent effects. Guess I won't either as broken hearts mend
The little filly was by Tami's lovely stallion, Arions Playboy Destiny. She was my little futurity girl....
Thanks for listening,
Joy
