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| I'm sending you hugs right now!!! There really aren't any words that will help with the loss - the only thing you can do is keep pushing forward. This business is NOT for the faint of heart. It takes a special soldier to breed and raise babies, and I wish there was something I could say help you heal.
Lost our first foal at four weeks old May of last year and I think of her every. single. day. Palomino filly by Firewaterontherocks that had almost his exact face marking. She was perfect in every way. We found her in the pasture with a broken leg - she took her final breath with her head in my lap.
Time helps. It is slow and it is painful but it works. *HUGE HUGS* |
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Location: Somewhere across the SABINE | We lost our first colored foal this spring. I was stuck with a 7k vet bill and really no answers. It was out of my favorite mare and a stallion that had been on my wish list for a while. I did not handle it well, and chose to sell my mares and focus on having fun with horses for a while. Seeing the stallion ads this season and knowing I cant breed anything is disheartening. Then I think about how exciting it is to find a new baby in the mornings is a feeling that I wont ever forget. Perhaps later on in life I can get back into it. Im very sorry for your loss and pray things get better for you. |
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 Star Padded Honey
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Location: NW MT | I am so sorry for everyone's losses! In the years that I bred mares, I was very fortunate with no losses. Hugs to you all! |
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Location: Kentucky | We lost a foal in 2016. I had been lucky and had big perfect babies up until that point. My husband and I woke up, walked down to the barn and found my mare trying to push the babe out. Foal's head and neck were out, tongue was hanging out... I knew it was dead as soon as I saw it but my husband wouldn't accept it. I called the vet, but he was 20 minutes out. The foal's shoulder just needed a small adjustment and we pulled it out. Heart breaking thing is that I have been waiting for this mare to give me a filly for 4 years and there she was, a big pretty bay filly by Stoli My Heart. We buried her by the barn.
I can't say you'll ever get over it. It's been almost a year and I still really can't talk about it. It was horrific and sad and bad on the mare too. She wouldn't catch on foal heat, nor her next cycle so she's open now. We will try again this spring. I took a pic of the babe, not sure why. I haven't showed anyone, I feel it's private, but just felt if I didn't then I would forget. It's tough. I don't wish it on anyone and hope to never experience it again. |
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Location: Arkansas | Murphy - 2017-01-04 8:35 PM
We lost a foal in 2016. I had been lucky and had big perfect babies up until that point. My husband and I woke up, walked down to the barn and found my mare trying to push the babe out. Foal's head and neck were out, tongue was hanging out... I knew it was dead as soon as I saw it but my husband wouldn't accept it. I called the vet, but he was 20 minutes out. The foal's shoulder just needed a small adjustment and we pulled it out. Heart breaking thing is that I have been waiting for this mare to give me a filly for 4 years and there she was, a big pretty bay filly by Stoli My Heart. We buried her by the barn.
I can't say you'll ever get over it. It's been almost a year and I still really can't talk about it. It was horrific and sad and bad on the mare too. She wouldn't catch on foal heat, nor her next cycle so she's open now. We will try again this spring. I took a pic of the babe, not sure why. I haven't showed anyone, I feel it's private, but just felt if I didn't then I would forget. It's tough. I don't wish it on anyone and hope to never experience it again.
One of my closest friends raises cutting horses. There was a particular pali mare that she was hoping and praying for a pali foal from. On Easter Sunday (this was several years ago) she went to the barn early to check on her and found a perfect little replica of the mare laying beside her momma dead. Becky said it broke her heart and took some of the joy out of breeding for a long time. I can't imagine the heart break breeders go thru when this happens. I am so sorry for all the losses. |
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