December photos/Equine Affaire: On Target Miniature 2012 foals

[MBhorses]

WOW nice foals. Love the blue eyed foal

 

[sar09006]

Both of them are drop dead gorgeous! <3

 

[cassie]

they are both just absoloutly Stunning! love them both so much! come on Sox, we want to see your baby to now please?

Toffee and Clyde are both lying down have a nice nap.

sorry I have not posted earlier, I have been watching from 8pm your time Mary its just been heaps busy at work and has taken me this long to catch up with everything LOL goodness! don't know how reliable I will be for the rest of the afternoon, we have these strange wind and rain storms coming through and the power has been going on and off, I am watching though.

Sox standing quietly. 12:38am

 

[Eagle]

1.45am and all is quiet

2.20am Sox was butt rubbing on the door. Mora looks much better tonight and is moving around her stall hoovering

 

[targetsmom]

Yes, I am so excited to see Mira hoovering!!!!! A very good sign indeed, and there is a lot of hay down in the stall for her to "hoover".

 

[cassie]

Sox down sternal... resting quietly.... come on girl we want to see your foal!!!

 

[cassie]

signing off for the evening. Sox is in safe hands with the lovely ladies on here

tomorrow is a public holiday (ANZAC Day) so I'll try watch when I can, but my Aunty and Uncle are coming for lunch, then I am going to a friends house in the arvo to help her paint her room, then I have other friends coming over in the night LOL I will watch when I can. and post when I'm on watching.

Have a lovely day everyone, I will try check on Sox before heading out tonight.

 

[targetsmom]

BAD NEWS!!! That was not hoovering we were watching as no hay disappeared and this morning she is pawing, screaming, anxious, but won't touch a thing I offer her including the grass in the front lawn. I gave her Stomach Soother and Ca and am beside myself not knowing what to do. She acts like she wants food, nosing around in everything, but won't eat. She has been getting Gastroguard since this started.

Oh, and the cams aren't working right and the alarm on the quad processor is going off constantly....

Ideas anyone??

 

[targetsmom]

I am beside myself - from the cam she looks quiet and like she was looking for food. But no poop in stall and she immediately started pawing when I went out to feed. VERY alert, screaming as she would for food, so I fed her first (making everyone else angry). When she wouldn't eat, I let her out, she trotted around, over to Toffee's stall where there is more hay outside, but just nosed in all the hay. Put her on lead, took her out to lawn and all she would do was paw. She does not look sick or like a colicky horse - at least none in my experience - more like frustrated. Hard to tell about water because Bunny dumps one bucket but she had drunk some last evening.

I hope the Ca I gave helps... I did not take temp - thought about it and will go back out and do it. I have to get some food myself, as I am about ready to pass out. I can, of course, also call my vet.

 

[bannerminis]

Poor Mira. I have to say when I was watching she did look like she was acting normally and does look very alert. I suppose running it all by your vet would do no harm. Will say a prayer that she finds her appetite again and that all will be well

 

[targetsmom]

Gary just offered her every kind of treat we could find - apple, carrot, grape, Frosted Mini Wheats- and she sniffed each one but wouldn't eat any. She fought with me when I went to halter her to take her temp - which is a bit low at 98.4, but it is also very cold here. I will call the vet in a short while, but I figure he needs his sleep too. She acts like she is starving but just can't find anything she wants to eat. SO frustrating for all of us.

 

[sar09006]

Maybe she is starting to get impacted with eating a little and not pooping so it hurts. Maybe mineral oil down throat to lubricate?

Did you try getting a hold of Peter?

 

[targetsmom]

I also thought of colic/impaction, but she just doesn't act like it. She acts frustrated, rather than in pain. I think it is late enough now for me to call the vet....

 

[sar09006]

Remember when Princess was a little colicy a while back she wasn't rolling or biting her side. You just knew she wasn't right and felt her sides and it was hard. Then you gave her meds and called Peter.

 

[targetsmom]

And all that was, was a little gas.... she recovered with just a bit of Maalox. And she was eating....

 

[targetsmom]

Called vet - will try hand grazing again and give him update in an hour. He can come by and do blood work but really has no ideas.

 

[Eagle]

Oh Mary sorry I didn't read before. I am sending prayers that the grass helps and hugs for you to help you stay calm in this stressing time. (((((())))))

 

[Becky]

Be sure your vet checks her liver enzymes. I'm rooting for her to pull through!

 

[Charlotte]

I agree with Diane that letting her wander on her own with grass to graze would be good. And like Becky said, for sure have vet check liver enzymes.

this will all get solved...just cover all the bases and then go with your gut. I'm a firm believer in the natural lifestyle for a horse if it's possible.

 

[targetsmom]

Major update: We think we found the problem - in her MOUTH!! Of course the vet was here yesterday and checked every horse's mouth EXCEPT MIRA!! He is on his way back as it looks like a sore or abscess. In the meantime, we also found a bale of nice soft, short hay that she is digging into!!! Have a bran mash mixed up to offer her next, but the soft hay seems to be what she wanted. She is also turned out in the turnout she had been using, so we don't have to keep her on a lead.

Of course that bale is buried and we still have to dig it out....

ETA: And Sox's alarm keeps going off every time we have Mira out or can't see Sox or the cam!!!