Sad News
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:38 pm
Diplomatic Pleasure slipped her foal sometime in the night. I found it already cold when I went out to feed at 5:30. It was still completely encased in its sac and attached to placenta. Mom was munching hay like it wasn't even there. I still tried to revive it, like an idiot, but the vet said it never even took a breath, so at least did not suffer. She was 2-4 weeks early, and had not even bagged up. No signs last night at feeding time - everything was "normal".
It was a filly, kind of smutty buckskin with 2 high whites on both back legs and a huge white star, like Mom's. A little small due to prematurity, but otherwise normal.
Vet's diagnosis was "placentitis" as the placenta was enlarged....was, in fact, the largest she said she'd ever seen. She palpated and found that everything inside Mom was fine, nothing left over, no retained twin, uterus shrinking perfectly, etc. Gave her some banamine and oxytocin, and recommended not to breed her back on foal heat, but to wait a couple of months just to watch her. I was going to let her skip a year anyway, so that's fine.
Sigh. My heart is broken. My first mare, my first baby. It's been a lousy 2006.
It was a filly, kind of smutty buckskin with 2 high whites on both back legs and a huge white star, like Mom's. A little small due to prematurity, but otherwise normal.
Vet's diagnosis was "placentitis" as the placenta was enlarged....was, in fact, the largest she said she'd ever seen. She palpated and found that everything inside Mom was fine, nothing left over, no retained twin, uterus shrinking perfectly, etc. Gave her some banamine and oxytocin, and recommended not to breed her back on foal heat, but to wait a couple of months just to watch her. I was going to let her skip a year anyway, so that's fine.
Sigh. My heart is broken. My first mare, my first baby. It's been a lousy 2006.
