Won't be online much today, the life of a rancher demands my time. Six hours or so ago one mare had a foal. The mother rejected the baby. At the same time another mare, our best brood mare, who has no baby this year, stepped in and took over the baby. Problem is she has no milk to feed it. Now we have to induce milk in the adoptive mother and at the same time bottle feed the baby and hope she survives.
More news later as it happens.
PS....This is my version of breaking news.....hope to have more to report later.
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Steven Bridenbaugh
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Good luck to you!
Lezlie
You know where the most need it right now.
You can write about it another time.
take care of the newborn...
Will try sneaking back for updates.
R♥
In my years as a dog breeder, dam's rejected their offspring for one of two reasons.. either something was 'wrong' with the baby (in which case it usually didn't make it no matter how hard I tried to save it and mom was right) or she was a new mother and honestly had no clue of what that squirming squeaking little thing was (instinct sometimes drops the ball) in which case it took some effort to keep mom and babies together until 'the light bulb lit up'.
But that's with dogs, have no idea if it might apply to horse-kind.
Rated for good luck.