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This is a pic of Harry our foal, not doing so well after his birth yesterday, he died twice, but now 24 hours later, he is bouncing around driving his mother crazy

The story of Harry's birth:
Yesterday we had to force our brumby Bella to foal. She was having some difficulty so I called the vet out, who then decided that the foal has to be born immediately. So for the next 30 mins we tried to get it out...it was horrible and hard. We had to tie ropes to the feet and head and try and pull it out, three people pulling on one little foal, I was sure we were going to rip it in half.

Eventually the situation got desparate so we knocked out the horse she dropped to the ground and we ripped it out. The foal's tongue and gums were blue, he was dead so we had to start to revive it. The vet did CPR while I rubbed it vigorously and after a few minutes it took faint, shallow breaths...and then it stopped again. We repeated the process and it started to breath again.

after an hour or more little Harry (Named after my recently deceased Grandad) tried to walk and eventually did. He could not suck to start with so we milked the mare who was still out to it and tube feed him. When she woke I had to milk her and bottle feed him until she accepted him and he could find her udder.

24 hrs later, he is bucking and kicking and feeding on his own. Harry is a little fighter, but if he were in the wild, where his mother was from early this year, they would both be dead. She is only 2 and he was too big for her little body.

I am so tired. I was up all night with Bella and Harry making sure he was feeding and that she was ok. Bella is pretty sore, but she is recovering slowly.

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This is a pic of Harry our foal, not doing so well after his birth yesterday, he died twice, but now 24 hours later, he is bouncing around driving his mother crazy

The story of Harry's birth:
Yesterday we had to force our brumby Bella to foal. She was having some difficulty so I called the vet out, who then decided that the foal has to be born immediately. So for the next 30 mins we tried to get it out...it was horrible and hard. We had to tie ropes to the feet and head and try and pull it out, three people pulling on one little foal, I was sure we were going to rip it in half.

Eventually the situation got desparate so we knocked out the horse she dropped to the ground and we ripped it out. The foal's tongue and gums were blue, he was dead so we had to start to revive it. The vet did CPR while I rubbed it vigorously and after a few minutes it took faint, shallow breaths...and then it stopped again. We repeated the process and it started to breath again.

after an hour or more little Harry (Named after my recently deceased Grandad) tried to walk and eventually did. He could not suck to start with so we milked the mare who was still out to it and tube feed him. When she woke I had to milk her and bottle feed him until she accepted him and he could find her udder.

24 hrs later, he is bucking and kicking and feeding on his own. Harry is a little fighter, but if he were in the wild, where his mother was from early this year, they would both be dead. She is only 2 and he was too big for her little body.

I am so tired. I was up all night with Bella and Harry making sure he was feeding and that she was ok. Bella is pretty sore, but she is recovering slowly.