Foals Season Trauma - It is foaling season for Most - hope you are not one of these

Buyer had for our foals every year throughout Washington and Oregon and the horses and owners were to do it again for me the training. I felt really good about what I was doing. Foaling seasons was all gone well. Morgan's babies were great. Bellagio grown up and we were getting ready to show for his first baby. I had to check every few hours in Paris. She had a few babies before, with no problems, so I was not too worried. I have for my 7:00 check. She was in the barn. I really did not like the mares foal in the barn. With the increasing number of horses on the property and the rain was all that mud hole. I was reminded of Vashon. I was afraid that the overcrowding and the mud we would still bacteria problem. So I held her in the paddock near the house. You could come back and forth in the foaling stall. She had chosen the barn to have her baby instead of pouring rain. 

It has not been stress? Something was terribly wrong. The baby's nose was, it was cold. I had just checked it, it seemed, less than an hour. How long has it been? I worked and worked to get the baby. The one front leg had locked himself back at the elbow and pushing the power of her leg had jammed against her pelvis. I called the vet. Two hours later we had the child. It was dead What I would have done differently? How could I have missed it? I would have been there earlier. It was time to get up Paris. She needed to move. She had probably been around for at least four hours. 

People began to come into the barn for their morning rides. Everyone tried to get her. We rolled them, they turned and tried to feed her, slapped her, tried to make a loop. 12 hours later we knew she would not get up. Until then, we had neighbors and boarders and Ryder and Cooper, Art Pepper and children. Shall we to the vet hospital? How would we invite? We could not her in the two horse trailer? One of the neighbors, a couple of ladies who bought one of the hugs foals of us had recently Marci and Jennie had a cattle trailer. We set up a sheet of plywood to her slide up into the trailer, rolled them on a blanket and put it in. What a team. 


Liz Lake one of the boarders wrote a description of the day. These people were great. What a joy it was for us to know them. Paris was in the hospital for a few days. It was soon clear that irreversible damage had been done to her spinal cord and she would never walk again. I was devastated. Art and pepper from the difficult decision they have euthanized. She was such a wonderful horse. She was the horse that all children rode. She was sweet and kind. She was a beautiful palomino. She was so stout she was often mistaken for a quarter horse. It was indeed a sad day. 

I realized that day that that God had done something in your mother and I, was that others see on the outside. Liz expressed this in her letter to Art and pepper on that day. "We wanted to let you know how sad we feel about Paris. As you may have heard, Connie and I spent the better part of Sunday trying to help her. As I write this, I still do not understand well. During the course of Sundays ordeal were both beaten by us different things. Probably the most important when we arrived the dedication and love that both had your executives for this horse to be sure all was for the horses. From the moment there and were swept into the urgency of the situation, we never doubted that they would move heaven and earth to make her better. John (Cisco's owner) came at the same time as we did, and the five of us spent many hours to do everything possible to get up to help Paris. manager would be something that works and maybe we would all jump to see if we could put it to suggest all this while in extreme pain from his own injuries a few days was before. Yet there he was pushing ahead, bracing and moving bales of hay for them to rest. During the hours wore on and we realized that something had to be done, he called in reinforcements from the neighbors., you are blessed with exceptional neighbors.

 Curt came with his sons and we tried a sling. (Curt was one of the families of the church in the ATI home schooling program). When that failed, the ladies, the Star (hugs baby) bought with their cattle trailer and support came. It took six adults, your two great kids, and the neighbors son finally Paris in the trailer so that they could go somewhere to get the help she needed. I do not know if I'll ever such a collective strength, determination, dedication and heart in an effort, as we have seen were part of this Sunday evening. We wanted you to know how lucky we think you are, especially in this couple as with the managers., we constantly impressed by these two and always learn things from them., you are wonderful, warm, caring people and their feelings for the horses is so real. We saw what they did on this day and know they would do the same for all our animals. There was no indication unexplored, no idea untried . We have tried to give Paris a real chance because they deserve it. they understood that, and did everything they could. heard you can do this all before, but we just wanted you to know how important it was us .. Please note that Paris is in our prayers " 

This was a difficult spring. We had to put espresso, Peppers first gaited horse, one that she and her children had ridden bareback together. He was diagnosed with Cushing's disease. He would not take the medication in any way, no matter how I tried to get it into him. I think he wanted to die. It was hard to take him to the vet and put him to sleep. I used to have another foal, one of the mares that someone put a deposit have her baby when it was born lost. It seemed I was minutes late getting out review of the mother. I think the baby suffocated before it came out. Something they call Red Bag. I felt emotionally drained....

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