Hi,
I am terribley sorry to hear about such a heart breaking loss! I deffinately know what it feels like to have lost something so precious like that! I've lost one in a trailer wreck (hit black ice). And had my "best friend", who was my 12th birthday present (a yearling quarter colt) stolen my first semester at college! I was set up... I won the state 4-H with him in english equitation (way back when)... He was black, big and beautiful! I could of NEVER imagined life with out him! Let's just say it ruined my grades that semester and would NEVER live in the state of OK if you paid me!! lol!
But reading these post about these babies dieing... all about this time of year, with the weather changeing.... This scares me to death..... because (hopefully) next year this time... I will have babies this age! But after reading threw the post...... the most logical thing it sounds like is the walking pneomonia. HOW the heck are you suppose to catch that in time! Holly Cow! If there are NO signs.... nothing to vaccinate that for!? Is there any supplements with like immunity boosters to give these babies to help protect them from this?
Also..... wish someone could do a study on the babies that 'have' died... to see where they were located, what the weather conditions were and had been, what they were fed, what are thier bloodlines..... any thing and everything to try to figure out how to watch for this deal!? Very scarey!!!
I think "possibly" we're seeing more deaths this year, maybe (my guess) because of the earlier winter than last year?