a very special filly was born at Massie Lodge on Friday morning at around 8am to our mare, Madely Miss who kept this a secret for nearly 10 months after scanning negative to Portland Player.
Madey had Friday all organised as Evan feed her her breakie at 6am, nearly jumped through the stable to get to her hay at 6.45am and then decided to leave the stable and find a nice big muddy patch after a storm on Thursday night that yielded 20mls, to have Miss Daisy.
After the human breakfast, it was my job to let girls out, put on fly veils etc etc and low and behold there was Madey sitting up after delivering Miss Daisy.
After getting Evan out of the house and down the back, we called Monika and then we decided that we needed to clean up baby and then move them back into Madey's stable by way of carrying her between us.
Daisy was premmy and was very weak and it took her sometime to get up on her feet. Evan milked Madey and then I fed bubs to make sure that she got "the elixer of life" for baby foals - colostrum.
After Monika visited and tended to Madey and then Daisy, as Daisy was still weak, it was back to milking mum and feeding bubs.
Daisy finally got up and teetered on her very long legs very unsurely, then we took her to task to get her onto mum's teats - Madey being the very experienced mum she is, never faultered and gave Daisy every opportunity to get the hang of it and finally the penny dropped.
Daisy has a long way to go but has turned the corner today.
Talk about a miracle!
Madey had Friday all organised as Evan feed her her breakie at 6am, nearly jumped through the stable to get to her hay at 6.45am and then decided to leave the stable and find a nice big muddy patch after a storm on Thursday night that yielded 20mls, to have Miss Daisy.
After the human breakfast, it was my job to let girls out, put on fly veils etc etc and low and behold there was Madey sitting up after delivering Miss Daisy.
After getting Evan out of the house and down the back, we called Monika and then we decided that we needed to clean up baby and then move them back into Madey's stable by way of carrying her between us.
Daisy was premmy and was very weak and it took her sometime to get up on her feet. Evan milked Madey and then I fed bubs to make sure that she got "the elixer of life" for baby foals - colostrum.
After Monika visited and tended to Madey and then Daisy, as Daisy was still weak, it was back to milking mum and feeding bubs.
Daisy finally got up and teetered on her very long legs very unsurely, then we took her to task to get her onto mum's teats - Madey being the very experienced mum she is, never faultered and gave Daisy every opportunity to get the hang of it and finally the penny dropped.
Daisy has a long way to go but has turned the corner today.
Talk about a miracle!
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