Sorry I have been busy again and missed your concerns Renee. i dont think you want to keep giving him enemas - could they upset the natural bugs that should be in his bowel by now???? Also babies do not poo that often - not enough 'waste material' going through their systems as Momma's milk is all good stuff and not much waste stuff!
Could Britt be coming into her foal heat? Is his poo beginning to look more yellow in colour? Could this be causing him a little upset in his tummy? Just throwing out suggestions here!
As Diane said, he could have just found out how to roll and be trying out this new adventure? Or he might just be feeling itchyunder his rugs not because he is too warm or anything, but just because he does!
And no! You are not being silly worrying about him! You have worked so hard to give this little one his life, of course you are going to be aware of practically every move he makes - this is what makes you such a brilliant Grandma to him.
Interestingly I had a 'first time' discovery today. My little elderly Heidi has been rugged all winter, with the rug coming off to give her a break (and a chance to roll and itch) whenever it looked as though the warm sunshine was going to last all day and I could get the rug back on before it rained again. Well the last couple of weeks we have had some really bad downpours, especially at night, with the occasional bright, warm spell for just a couple of hours during some of the days. No way could I remove the rug even though the daytime temps were often quite warm. Yesterday I finally took the rug off for the last time - she felt just comfortably warm and had a lovely thick smooth white coat underneath, oh she looked so clean. LOL!! Anyway I took the rug away to brush off all the white hairs - rug felt perfectly dry inside and out to my touch but when I actually started to 'pummel' at it to get the hairs off, my hand got damp! The rug was actually quite wet 'inside'!! Now I'm sure little Heidi never felt other than slightly warm under the rug every day when I felt her, and her body and coat were always bone dry, but somehow she must have been getting a bit too warm on occasion and the rug had drawn away the moisture into its centre, I'm not sure if it is a beatheable rug (can the waterproof ones be breatheable) or whether it was 'breathing' the moisture away through its waterproof layer, but I have never found a rug to be so very dry to my normal touch, light brush, only to find it quite wet when I hammered at it!!?? My point is that maye you should check little Merlin's rugs just to make sure the under one is perfectly dry!! (Heidi today is now filthy dirty with a lot of screwed up hair, the pest, and I have a field covered with white hair coz I was following her around with my comb for an hour or more combing out handfuls of white hair for her. LOL!!
Off to check on Merlin again.
I might just get 2 blue roan foals this year
if only it would stop raining, I could bring her home too.
