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Location: Keeping up with the numbers! | She is holding out. Still bagging, but no waxing or dripping. We are definitely getting softer. She has not gotten up on her feet since Sunday morning. Positives, she is still eating and drinking and nickering when her friends walk by her stall to go out to pasture. I gave her a good body message last night and another couple of bags of super soft thorough bred shavings. Staying positive  |
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Location: OH. IO | I feel so bad for her.I wish she would get up .This has to be so difficult for you |
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Location: Oklahoma | Prayers going out to you and your mare
Please don't be offended by this, but I would like to suggest putting something in your subject line to grab the attention of Texans that may just browse the homepage. I think if you called out on a group of people you might be better able to find a nurse mare. best of luck |
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Location: wherever my daughter's running | I am no help as far as the nurse mare. I certainly will keep her, the foal and you in my prayers. I am a real softie for the mares that carry a foal. It is not silly about the eyes. You know her better than anyone. I always have depended on their eyes to help me make those tough decisions. Hugs to you. |
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| BeanCounter - 2016-01-19 8:56 AM
She is holding out. Still bagging, but no waxing or dripping. We are definitely getting softer. She has not gotten up on her feet since Sunday morning. Positives, she is still eating and drinking and nickering when her friends walk by her stall to go out to pasture. I gave her a good body message last night and another couple of bags of super soft thorough bred shavings. Staying positive
When was her last breeding date.... this will put you into a more likely birthing date ..
Keep her laying sitting up on her breastbone even if you have to prop her up with bales of hay to keep her laying flat to a minimum ... water on the lungs and pneumonia happens when a horse is down and most vets will give you a 3day or 6day being down as a maximum for the horse to ever recover ... since it also affects the mobility of their legs to make that surge to try to stand up and legs are too weak to handle her weight or to balance her ...
Prayers to you and GOD BLESS ... |
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Location: Keeping up with the numbers! | Thank you for all the ideas. She was able to stand Saturday and Sunday for a bit. As of yesterday she has only sat up. The hay bale idea sounds like a winner. She was bred on February 19th and is actually due on January 25th (Monday). The three other babies she blessed us with all came a week prior to their due date. Obviously this will be a different scenario given her health situation.
I have attached an old picture of her and my daughter (9yrs old at the time) winning the 2D at a +300 WinMore race and FWOTR winning the race.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | BeanCounter - 2016-01-19 2:31 PM Thank you for all the ideas. She was able to stand Saturday and Sunday for a bit. As of yesterday she has only sat up. The hay bale idea sounds like a winner. She was bred on February 19th and is actually due on January 25th (Monday). The three other babies she blessed us with all came a week prior to their due date. Obviously this will be a different scenario given her health situation. I have attached an old picture of her and my daughter (9yrs old at the time) winning the 2D at a +300 WinMore race and FWOTR winning the race.
Awww this is so hard I know on you guys, this mare is in my prayers, prayers that this baby will get here really close to the due date and mommy can get up for awhile so that baby can get its first milk.. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Many, many prayers for you and your mare. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Call the breeding farms for a mare.....not sure where you are.....Lazy E nearby? |
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| You might contact Royal Vista if you haven't already. When we lost our foal out of a recipient mare they had been contacted by someone who lost a mare so we shipped our recip mare straight to them.
Broodmares are amazing. We lost a mare two years ago, and I believe she hung on as long as possible, and actually delivered a couple of weeks earlier than she normally does. It was like she waited for me to go out and do chores so I could see her lay down and deliver. Hopefully your mare can hold on and give you a healthy foal. And I also hope she will be able to get up once she's not carrying the extra weight. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Granada Farms, 6666, Scarlett Hill Ranch, Lazy Susan |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Def contact repro facilities and post on facebook. You can raise one with colostrum and bottle feeding though. |
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Location: Arkansas | I know I sound like a broken record for updates, but I just can't get her and that baby off my mind. |
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Location: Keeping up with the numbers! | We are the same. Eating and drinking very well, but she will not get up. She does sit up for 10-15 minutes at a time and then lays down for a couple of minutes. These are the pictures from last night after we flushed and redressed her foot. I am still not sure why after a week we still have a pooling of drainage coming from the bottom of her foot. BTW, for those wondering I am in routine contact with two vets that have been part of this journey.
I have a niece who will be born C-Section tomorrow who will be named after one of my dearest aunts who passed away from cancer tomorrow morning - Bonnie Grace. Maybe my mare is holding out until she is born. We will be getting another cold front in a day or two so I will be paying very close attention to that as well.
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| My heart goes out to you..I will be praying...Your story pulls at my heart strings.... I hope this mare foals, and the added pressure takes weight off of the foot and she lives a long happy life. I wish I had a nurse mare for you, I would sure send it your way. |
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Location: Feeding those that need me | My heart is breaking for you. I just lost my childhood mare of 12+ years yesterday and find a nurse mare for her baby. I hope your baby ends up as lucky as ours. Our vet gave us the number of a nurse mare farm in Hugo, OK - a decent drive, but they actually bring the mare to you. We ended up hooking up with someone whose mare's baby had to be put down on Sunday in Whitesboro thanks to the Nurse Mare/Orphan Foals facebook group. You may try that, but I didn't see any others in Texas on there yesterday. I will add to this thread if I hear of any other possibilities. I am so sorry this is happening to you and I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Today was my grandmother's birthday, and tomorrow is my grandfather's. . . . I'm coming back on here tomorrow night with faith that your gutsy mare is better, and perhaps has added a special delivery to your family. Safe prayers also for your new niece and her mom. |
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