Siskiyou - Jo's New Born Thoroughbred Colt
Channel: LookattheBiggerPic
Date: 13/04/2013

Our close family friend Jo has two lovely Thoroughbred mares (live here too), both a little over 11 months along with "B" (a beautiful big gray) who decided to go into labor this morning (Monday, April 8th, 2013) just before I returned from dropping kids off to school. Shockingly, I noted her on the downhill side of the pasture with her hind quarters (where the baby comes out) up against the downhill fence right after a long night of rain... Yikes!

I jumped into action and immediately called my lovely, seasoned, horse women, partner and her  daughter and tossed on my Swedish Mil. over-boots to go slogging down the muddy hill in upper 30's temperature, in a stylish AMD Fusion T-Shirt...

As it turned out the need was very dire and I had to pull the fence and tug on the baby whose nose was just peeking out behind two really long sturdy legs, not in a good position. His tongue turning blue, we knew we didn't have long to save this new little person for certain demise, possibly mama too...

After a whole lot of grunting and struggling on ALL our parts, It is decided that we should try to roll B over which, other than getting clobbered by big hooves, was pretty easy and a moment later B was up on her feet where she be led up to the flat, dry barn isle where we proceeded to have another tug of war, with baby holding fast.

After more grunting and tugging on Everyone's part baby started to come loose and B just rolled to the ground and the baby practically popped out from the pressure!

My Gal jumped down next to the new colt and started drying him off with a towel and he made a very satisfying short whinny. We knew he was fine and everyone signed in relief and relaxed, especially B...

Sadly, two days later Q's health begins to deteriorate and the vet is called out for an all-night battle to keep little Q alive. It appears as if he is allergic to Mama's milk though it looked like everything was perfectly fine until it obviously wasn't. The vet got Q on I/V fluids which saved him but the battle to save Q had really just begun...

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