Thanks for all of the responses. It is my last live foal that I have been fighting to save. Fortunately I caught his illness right at the start and took him to the vets. He is still depressed, and sleeping alot. No foal play jumping around his stall. He is nursing well now, ever since a couple of days on antibiotics. I gave him Bio Sponge when needed and fluids for a day. No fever for 6 days, but yesterday his hair started falling out in clumps. all around his face from under they eyes down to the muzzle, behind his ears, neck and back end. This has been a really bad year for me. I was only expecting 5 foals, two by my now 3 year old stallion Riverdances Windborne (which no one knows about yet, his dam is a multiple AMHA World Grand Champion producer and a daughter of Whittmaacks Mickey Mouse). Anyway, his first foal was a palomino colt, who was hip locked and died before we could get him out. Then two live fillies by Desperado and Prince, then this colt, who is a Prince son out of my Best Kept secret daughter. He was my first red bag birth and two days after birth, went septic. We have no idea why, because his IGG was very good and his umbilical cord was treated. the day after he was born, one of my best mares started to give birth. It was her first foal and was by Windborne. I could not believe it, another hip lock. (these were my first two hip locks in 14 years of breeding). The vet tried for 2 hours, but we could not get the foal out and had to put down my mare. So, two hiplocks (both Windborne kids), one red bag where the foal went septic and the loss of my 4 year old mare. Sometimes I wonder why I am doing this. Then I watch my two healthy foals running around, and I know why.
