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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Pony slave[/i] [br] I know that this is not an Arab Foal arrival BUT I have to say a huge thankyou to Amanda May of Pearl Island Arabians without whom this would be very different outcome. Last November my Mum bought herself a new horse to potter about on a lovely Ardennes mare. On Monday morning she produced a colt foal, she is an enormous horse and showed no real signs of being with child, so this was a total surprise, the foal was very weak and a panic stricken mum rang me at work, then called the vet, whilst driving at 90mph to get home I called Amanda, we all arrived within minutes of each other to find a very nearly dead collapsed foal and a confused large mare. The clearly shocked vet had no idea what to do, Amanda told her exactly what to do and almost how to do it, it was just horrendous watching a vet with hands shaking putting a drip into him - but we knew we had no time to call a more senior vet. I won't bore you with all the details but Amanda was just brilliant and helped us milk the mare, tube the foal, all the time guiding the vet through, when all treatments that could be done, were done she looked at me and said "he doesn't look very good, I don't think he's going to make it" she left and we watched him sleep, all in his hands now. A long 45mins later he woke up, he wanted to get up so we helped him stand and got him over to his mum, he suckled - I cried!! We know he is not yet out of the woods but he is now cantering round the large strawed down yard all is still crossed. We have no idea who the stallion might be but he is a huge foal!! Thankyou Amanda so much Gabbie xxxxx [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON    Insert a Flickr Image or Video Check here to include your profile signature.