Does anyone know whether Michelle Conway at Abbey Glenn Stables is still trading? I can't find the website any more and she still owes me the passports for two cobs I bought last year....
I'm really glad you found a foster mum Jan. Sorry about not answering the mobile, we were recharging it while we were outside with the horses and missed your call. We have taken the foal from the field and she is fretting and producing a lot of milk but I know it has to happen some time and i...
I'm so sorry, that is really terrible. A stillborn foal is bad enough but to lose a foal that you and she had bonded with must have been horrendous. We took some colostrum from Floss on the direction of the foaling bank but if she is not to be a foster mum I will not milk her at all and keep a...
Thanks everyone for your kind words and messages of help and support. It has made a huge difference to read that what I'm feeling is normal, I was shocked at how upset I was and still am. I think it is the fact that I could see that Floss (my mare) was so distressed and I could do nothing to...
Our irish cob mare has given birth unexpectedly this morning to a beautiful but dead foal. We bought her from a yard in Yorkshire in June so she must have been pregnant, I think she was imported from Ireland shortly before. She hasn't been ridden for 6 months because we have had passport...