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We pulled in at the farm just before 3:00pm after a very successful 3 day camping trip. Thought later I would take a long nap with plans to spend the night at the farm just sure that Samantha was to foal. Samantha was put out to graze to get her out of the terrible heat in the barn, then at 4:00pm Steven came, hosed her off, watered her, but left her out because of the heat it is in the 90s. I planned on getting back to the farm by 8:00pm but left a little early and pulled in at 7:45pm and there was Samantha standing next to Velvet's paddock NOT PREGNANT. The foal had tried to get up and slipped into Velvet's paddock but both Velvet and Big Sally and their foals were leaving the little thing alone. Talk about adrenaline, the filly was picked up and put through the fence. The filly is a little more than 100 pounds and my heart was pumping. She is beautiful with strong healthy lungs but her 2 front legs have some contraction in the tendons. She was able to stand and even walk but not brace to nurse. We milked Samantha all night feeding the filly every hour. By 5:00am the filly starts to colick so was given 2 enemas which did the trick but by then I wanted to call the vet clinic for the legs so waited until 6:30am and called the emergency number. It was answered by someone saying, "Hoerr Vet clinic." After being up all night all I could think to say was, "this is Judy Sceggel and I need help." It was Dr. Pallen, she asked me what was wrong and when given all the information, bless her heart, told me she would be there in 45 minutes.
Rachel, Diane and I assisted her getting the splints on the filly and she has now learned to balance on them once up but still needs assistance on getting up. We are still working on getting her to nurse, she is rooting but wants to latch on to the bottle nipple instead of Samantha's teats. That is one bad thing of bottle feeding but we had no choice.
Sanna is now back and in season and was covered. Big Sally has finally come into season and will be covered tonight. Velvet is also in season, was bred on Sunday, so she will be covered tomorrow. AND the worst of all is I still haven't seen walker Sally's filly. It was just too much effort to drive over to the cabin.
Wanda will be leaving for her new owner on Saturday.