OMG, lay awake alot of the night last night listening to the rain and thinking that it was far too wet for Touchwood and how would he be comfortable???? When I looked out the window at dawn, still misty rain, but he looked fine and has been galloping about all day! Still abit worried about his moderate amount of IgG, but no problems so far.....
AND THEN
....I looked out the window, stepped out of the deck, briefly glanced up....and thought for an instant....by God that foal's in the wrong paddock..... And then the reality hit home. F...K Pazzy's had her foal! AND I MISSED IT. I could see that it was sitting up and looking pretty normal but went into hyperwarp.....took the camera with me, no CF card of course....
It was about 10am I suspect, by the time I glanced out it was 11am. All seems well, though Pazzy seems like she has very minimal milk. Due to do an IgG test in the morning and pretty much convinced we're doing a plasma (hyperimmune) top up...and will do bloods. But to all intents and purposes the FILLY (chestnut, will go grey) is looking very normal and got a great suck happening...... Pazzy lost her membranes about midday and they did show very evident signs of placentitis, very brownish mucopurulent material present. To stay on antibiotics for a while.
Paddock name at this stage is "Go".....we'll see what happens as regards name....thoughts have been "TouchNGo" as well as "Ready-Set-Go"...... but really just wanting to get through this first week all okay. Day 322 today, so only just made the 320 finish line.......
Temps tonight holding:
Keema 37.9
Noah 38.1 (but galloping about before being fed/temp taken)
Paz 38.2
Amazzon 37.9
Frontier 38
Bart 38
Lucky 38
Hot and humid, stifling almost and the midges look like starting to be a problem.....maybe for people as much as horses....
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