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Circle W Reg. Mar 2006	Posted 2015-04-14 12:59 PM Subject: Baby is finally here!
Veteran Posts: 216 Location: In between 4 ridges	But his maiden momma is terrified of him! He was born Saturday morning. She wants absolutely nothing to do with him... I have tried everything that I know to get her to take to him. We are bottle feeding the baby. I have been milking momma as much as possible, giving him her milk. He is also on Foal Lac milk re-placer and is getting 2cc of penicillin for the first 5 days per vet. Saturday night we fought a battle with colic with him and he pulled through it! For my kids sake I hope he is one tough little dude! They are so in love with him already. Poor foal thinks he is a person/dog. P.S. I know the rules but I have no way to upload the pics. I can email them to someone if they would like to upload them for me.
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suzy2qtee Reg. Jan 2012	Posted 2015-04-14 1:16 PM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Playing the Waiting Game Posts: 2304	Have you tried to blindfold the mare to allow the foal to nurse?? She may get used to him and start accepting him.
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Circle W Reg. Mar 2006	Posted 2015-04-14 2:05 PM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Veteran Posts: 216 Location: In between 4 ridges	Yep, we tried it all. I have never seen a mare react to a foal the way she did to him.
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barrelrider Reg. Jan 2010	Posted 2015-04-14 2:08 PM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Elite Veteran Posts: 1074	Our maiden mare tried to kill her foal. It took a few days and then she accepted him and they did great together. Good luck.
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ACEINTHEHOLE Reg. Apr 2005	Posted 2015-04-14 2:09 PM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Tough Patooty Posts: 2615 Location: Sperry, OK	Have you tried twitching her while he tries to nurse? Maybe take her somewhere that has stocks so she can be forced to let him nurse?
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IRunOnFaith Reg. Dec 2009	Posted 2015-04-14 2:26 PM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Expert Posts: 3815 Location: The best kept secret in TX	I have no advice for horses. We used dogs on our cattle with maiden mommas tho. We put the cow/calf pair in a stock bumper pull trailer and put one of our family friend's calahoula cow dogs in the stock trailer with them as well. Every time the cow kicked or bit the calf the dog was trained to nip at the momma cow on her hock if she kicked and her nose if she bit. After a few minutes she learned to protect the calf and herself by accepting the calf. A few hours later they were all let out into a pen for the next three days. After those three days they returned to the normal cattle herd. I loved picking up those dogs for my dad from his friend. It meant I didn't have a bottle calf LOL Less work for me!!
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cow pie Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2015-04-15 8:49 AM Subject: RE: Baby is finally here!
Sock eating dog owner Posts: 4557 Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah	Has she been by herself with this baby yet? Has she had the opportunity to lick Clean nuzzle the foal some new mothers as well as most need alone time. Perhaps tie up blindfold and hobble a back leg and let that foal nurse so that bag gets emptied she just might let that baby nurse.
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