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  Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | I have been quiet on this board about these two . . .
Meet Moc and Dissy, twin APHA foals born at 4 a.m. March 15. Moc is a soreel colt and Dissy id the smaller of the two, a tobiano filly. The only medical intervention these two needed in their first days was a liter of plasma/serum for Dissy, whose IgG was borderline at 400. The filly, born weighing just 13.5 kg, was fighting from the start. She did not have a sucking reflex, but it developed by 4 hours and she took to the bottle immediately. Luckily, I have the Udderly EZ mare milk pump! Funny thing is that Dissy, half the size of her brother, stodd up before him and pooped and peed before he did as well! At about 18 hours, Dissy decided she had enough of the rubber and plastic and wanted the real deal from the source :) She has been nursing on her own since two days old and Missy, the dam, has been amazing in producing for these two. One setback came yesterday when we brought the pair to Oklahoma State for their weekly weigh in (both have DOUBLED their birth weight in 20 days). Although Dissy's legs had strengthened immensely, she was beginning to deviate in her pasterns. She was x-rayed and found to have a 5-degree deviation in her right leg and a 3-degree in her left (ankles). The periosteal stripping surgery went very well. In fact, the surgeon called me and said that even though Dissy was still drunk from anasthesia, she walked over to her dam, pushed big brother Moc out of the way and nursed :)
An ultrasound was done on this mare at 16 days, and only one sac was visualized . . .
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Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | 
Nap time on Day 2 . . .
Keeping warm in their first day . . . my friend Mack was pretty proud of her Foal Burritos :)
Visiting OSU at 16 hours old . . . Moc had an 800+ IgG and decided to nap in front of Mom. Dissy needed just one liter, and it was back home for all!
Weigh in at OSU at 4 days old . . . both had gained about 2 lbs each day - 6 lbs total!
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Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | Dissy at about 36-hours old nursing on her own . . . our little giraffe!
And nursing two days ago . . . we're growing :)
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | How wonderful they made it. Such a blessing. |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | They're adorable! |
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Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | Thank you! Their good health along the way has been an absolute blessing. Here they are yesterday at OSU for weigh in, then after admission for Dissy's periosteal strip surgery.
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 Strong Willed Woman
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Location: Prosser, WA | So cute. Glad they are doing well for you. |
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 The Original Cyber Bartender
Location: Washington | Such a blessing. Love the picture of the two of them nursing!!! |
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 1D Lawn Mower
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Location: Southeast, Texas | Precious! I can't wait to watch them grow! I'm glad you decided to share them with us!! [= |
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Location: Living in my Promised Land | Thank you so much for sharing your blessings. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Awesome!! |
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 Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Beautiful babies! Please keep us posted on their progress......they are precious!!!! |
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 I'm Cooler Offline
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Location: Pacific Northwest | So cute! My friend had a mare have twins and they both grew up fine (: The one had messed up legs and wasn't sound to ride but she was their favorite pasture pet. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Now thats so darn cute  , prayers for good health for the both of them  |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | Sooo cute! It looks like everyone is healthy! |
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 Night Watchman
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Location: Central Montana | Glad they are both doing well! Love the photo of them both nursing together. |
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Location: AR & OK | Oh my, they  are so cute.
Momma looks at peace.  |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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Common Sense and then some
Location: So. California | Congratulations on the twin foals! What a surprise that must have been. Glad to see they are both doing so well, miracles do happen! |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Congrats!  |
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 I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Beautiful babies!!! You have done a fabulous job with the picture diary. Please keep the pictures coming, so we can watch them grow. Sending prayers that they will continue to grow, prosper and be in great health. |
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| Absolutely adorable! What an awesome job you and Momma are doing with them! |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Bet you could get big money for that nursing in unison photo! Priceless! |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Those are wonderful pictures! Loved them! And, the babies are sooooo sweet :) Congratulations! That's awesome. |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | Congratulations! They are adorable!! |
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Location: Foot of the Smoky Mtns, East Tennessee | Oh my! I'm in love!!! |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | So cute!!!! Looks like you are taking excellent care of them too. :) |
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Location: Sweet Home Alabama | Wow that is incredible!! That's a great mama. Congrats!  |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | congrats on twins!and Mom is looking GREAT for carrying two little ones! |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Oh my goodness they are so cute! What great pictures. |
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 Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | very cute... you got one color paint and one breeding stock... lucked out all the way around.
please keep us with updates and pics of course. |
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 The Famous Hot Wing Chicken Girl
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| So cute! Happy they are healthy babies! |
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Extreme Veteran
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| Dumb question...if an aqha mare has twins, do you get to register both? |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | OH MY GOSH, this is so so cute! I have my first foal and I'm having a blast, I would have thought I died and went to heaven if I had 2 and both healthy!!! Please keep us posted as they grow up. I LOVING this, now I see why some people love doing this!!!!!
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Texas | I love them!! I LOVE the picture of them nursing!! |
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Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | NOT a dumb question at all, Power! Folks at APHA stated both can be registered - the only difference is one can be done online and the other will ned to have it done through snail mail. She also mentioned their papers will be marked as twins. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| How cool is this!! Thanks for sharing!! |
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Location: Southern Pennsylvania | Thank you for sharing! |
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Location: Kentucky | Too cute!!! Love the pictures! |
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Location: Tennessee | Another question...is it like in cattle, if you have a male and female born together, is the filly what they'd call a freemartin and sterile? I know it can happen in cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs. I wasn't sure if it happened in horses or not...? |
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Location: Texas | kdb2qq - 2014-04-14 10:31 AM Another question...is it like in cattle, if you have a male and female born together, is the filly what they'd call a freemartin and sterile? I know it can happen in cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs. I wasn't sure if it happened in horses or not...?
Don't think so. I've been wrong before but I think horses can have fraternal twins and both be "normal". Usually the problem horses have is one will be way smaller/malnourished.
BTW I'm in love with the little girly she's so adorable!! |
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 If it Ain't a Paint it Ain't!
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | To Cute... Thanks for Sharing |
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| Super cute, so glad they are doing well. I love the picture of the two of them nursing. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Looks like they are doing good. Cuties for sure. |
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Twin APHA foals . . . Moc and Dissy Pic-Heavy
