Poor Eliza

Right after the walk Emily and I took Emma to visit Rick James. Today they tied the knot.

If she conceives the puppies will be born the end of July. We picked up a prize for Joan's kids and dropped that off after dropping off Emma.

This turtle was crossing the road and going to get hit and smashed. We stopped the car, Emily picked it up and put it on the floor of her side of the car then when all was finished with Emma we jumped back in the car looked down and no turtle. It had crawled under the seat. It was just a good thing we remembered. The turtle was let loose in the lake.
 From there it was down to the shop to finish typing in the Bible requests while waiting for Mark to make it back to the shop. I was able to finish just after he got back. We left for Bridlewood with his meter to check the electricity on one of the stalls and also check for a water leak. Mark was able to show Cathie the problem on the stall but the water leak will have to be hired out.
When I got back from the shop Emily was mowing but had to stop to show me the kittens.
The cat had 6 kittens while she was in Mexico, 3 boys and 3 girls. Their eyes have just opened.

Next we decided to get a few pictures and videos of the foals. Sangria and her colt were first out as they was closest to the gate. Her colt was haltered and given some handling instruction before heading out to the arena.

He is such a big boy at 3 weeks of age. He really does have amazing movement. Check out the video below taken May 27th, 2015. He is for sale please visit our website for more information www.horsemeister.com 

Next out was Ribbon and her filly by Valiant. She too is huge. She is 11 days old.

She has very nice movement too.

When we were putting her in we were going to pull out Emma's colt when we saw that Eliza's colt was not well. He was hosed off and put in a stall and the vet called. By the time Dr. Hoerr arrived the colt was not doing well at all. We thought it was pneumonia but when the blood work came back it was obvious the colt was in big trouble. We hauled him straight over to Dr. Hoerr's where he was worked on for the next 3 hours trying to find out what was wrong with him. Finally Dr. Hoerr decided to do surgery but the colt died before the surgery started. We wanted to find out what could have caused his death. Dr. Hoerr  performed an autopsy and discovered the colt was full of infection. It turned out that he had an umbilical cord infection which must have been barely there for the last 2 weeks then exploded today with infection filling his belly.
As Emily is in training Dr. Hoerr had her stitch him back up for transport home.

The gurney was then wheeled outside to the trailer and the colt loaded into the back. Eliza had to ride in the front of the trailer with her dead colt in the back. We finally got home well after midnight.  Eliza has been stalled, the colt left in the trailer until morning. We will bury him here. This colt was sold so I will need to contact the buyer to refund his money. How sad for Eliza, how sad for us. The loss of this colt is kind of heart breaking. He was such a friendly fellow from the day he was born. Rest in Peace little guy!

Rhoda reported that the puppy is now sold. We knew he would sell quickly but didn't expect it quite that quickly.