Frantic foal capers!

More heavy rain and storms during the night. More worry re the new foals in their paddocks, but hey they survive in far worse than this......

Touchwood looked fantastic flying about his paddock this morning. Little Go up and drinking every time I looked. At 6am we examined Go and took some blood, which was very difficult because she wasn't having any of it. Bounding about. All well, though her heart very loud with resounding timbre, murmur consistent with newborn heart/indistinct heart sounds at times, 100/min, Temp 38.3, omm fantastic, nothing even remotely abnormal.

Snap test was much better than I anticipated. I think better than Touchwood - both between 400 & 800 mg/dl - but incredibly subjective. Which is partial failure of passive transfer. Not sure I want to chance this girl. Though everything looking good.

Decided to send to lab and have them quantify the result further only to have them confirm both foals between 400-800 mg/dl....perhaps they use the same Snap Test?

Anyway - ran an equine body function on Go b/c Pazzy very obv. had placentitis and all parameters fabulous. WCC normal, fibrinogen 2 (makes Tappy look off the planet and Dick assures me that she is normal as anything now)....Electrolytes, renal enzymes all normal, ALP up to astonishing 2000+ but this is normal in newborn foals.

Hmmm..... spoke to Tori at Anstead......Anstead now has "coughing" horses so "dirty" so-to-speak. She was pretty definite that if it is a valuable foal that little Go should have hyperimmune serum, though Touchwood passed the very vunerable stage.

Tori also said that foals that they are seeing are doing quite well with influenza providing they're not compromised in other ways. Might be the deciding factor.

Temps seem okay tonight though Femme did have a bit of a cough, but can be want to do so.

Keema 37.9
Noah 37.9
Paz 37.9
Amazzon 37.7
Bartie 37.9
Frontier 38.2
Lucky 37.7