I'm a temporary foster mum for a 4 week old foal!!!

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Yesterday I noticed baby foalie not looking so good in the field.. very lathargic, not playing!!!.... on closer inspection noticed he was pooing 'cement like' water!!!
Got mum and him into pen and she has mastitis and has been poisoning the foal!!!
Vet's first words were 'that's disgusting' as she noticed the poo on the ground!
He was deteriorating very quickly and vet felt it very important to stop giving him mum's milk and they have both had IV antibiotics and have a weeks course of powders... (not easy to give a foal in milk that he hates anyway!
Mare is much better today and is letting me strip the milk off her no problems and foalie is doing much better! I've managed to get him to drink milk / electrolites and water in a bucket (doesn't get the rubber teat thing!!!
I'm so chuffed that he's more lively and he even bit me when I was trying to remove the syringe for the probiotic!!! ( I was ever so pleased with this lol!)

Sorry for the pointless post......... just had to talk to someone who isn't my worried OH!!!
This is me and mum before my sore tum!!!
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Cookies and hot chocolate for anyone who made it this far!
 
Poor baby and mum, and poor you, must be really stressful. Am sure you will have a closer bond to foaly after this though, and hopefully no one will be any worse for the experience, only maybe you being tired :/

Keep us updated
 
Thanks for all your nice comments!

He has just had another 1 litre of milk........... he hates the stuff but he has finished his yummy electrolites........... and that's all I'm giving him during the day (he is fed every hour and has milk every hour... I have had to take his water out because he was refusing milk this afternoon so he will get water after milk if he needs it and during my 5 hour break.............. he is doing really well.... much better than I thought he would be!
He is as bright as a button and folowing me about...... looking at all the milk I'm wasting from mum too!

OH going mad cos I'm spending too much time try to save a life....... i'm getting madder hehe!!!
 
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