Poor, poor baby.

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Under the photo it says:

"Little Lily Long Legs went away to stud at 3weeks old (her mummy was being covered) and she was there for 8weeks and she grew, the stud deemed it not their job to remove or loosen her head collar!!! Food has been used as an incentive for her to gain trust in people again, she received fantastic veterinary care and is recovering well - eating hard feed and not far off weaning."
 
Unfortunately not unusual, Ive seen it quite a lot at a dealers. He used to buy in semi wild youngstock which people had left headcollars on.

They used to have to cut them and pull them off, when they did the poor things looked just like this photo.

Good news is they all recovered well. Did usually leave an indentation in their noses which never went away.

Poor little love :mad::mad:
 
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That is horrific, so not one person who works there thought to loosen her head collar. poor wee soul.
Have to ask though, is it normal to send a mare to be covered when she only foaled 3 weeks before? seems a bit wrong. i can't imagine having a bonk 3 weeks after giving birth, and my husband was no stallion! x
 
Thats what i thought too chestnutty! Seems a bit unreasonable - and didn't the owners visit their mare and foal at all while they were at the stud?
Doesn't excuse the appalling care given by the stud. They should be named and shamed - can't imagine how much pain that poor baby must have been in.
 
chestnuttymare said:
Have to ask though, is it normal to send a mare to be covered when she only foaled 3 weeks before? seems a bit wrong. i can't imagine having a bonk 3 weeks after giving birth, and my husband was no stallion! x
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It would be quite normal, to cover the mare on the 21 day heat. Some are even covered on the 4-9 day foal heat. That's maybe a bit too soon I think, it depends on the mare.
 
Wow,i was going out of my way to avoid the picture,and was reading to get a rough idea but that image has just made me leap back in my seat!Poor little girly horrid to think of her being so innocent and someone being so cruel and really that strap for time that they couldnt take a minute out just to take her headcollar off,now shes got to pay the consequences of healing bless her. :(
 
FionaM12 said:
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Under the photo it says:

"Little Lily Long Legs went away to stud at 3weeks old (her mummy was being covered) and she was there for 8weeks and she grew, the stud deemed it not their job to remove or loosen her head collar!!! Food has been used as an incentive for her to gain trust in people again, she received fantastic veterinary care and is recovering well - eating hard feed and not far off weaning."
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The idiots responsible for this need jailed, i would name and shame that stud, and hope to god their business goes into the toilet, shower of ar$es
 
chestnuttymare said:
Is that right? goodness. that must smart a bit!
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Yup. Poor mares. I had a mare who was quite the tart on the 4 day heat-she must have had a short memory!! There are a number of people around me who cover on the 4 day foal heat. They are all older men. My Dad mentioned it to me after one of my mares foaled a few years ago and I explained to him in no uncertain terms the unsuitability of said action. He never menioned it again!!
 
Wouldn't the mares milk dry up once she was in foal again?? Just wondering what happens in the wild...
Poor little mite. This must have happened over a period of months surely? So they ignored the inevitable for months - dispicable!!
 
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Wouldn't the mares milk dry up once she was in foal again?? Just wondering what happens in the wild...
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Nope, Mare's feed their foals untill they're 6 - 7 months old, the norm is to send the mare back to the stallion on her second heat, or the 21 day heat so they are preggers and feeding for between 5 and 4 months if they have a foal one year after the other :D
 
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I remember seeing this back in the old days of Rolf Harris Animal Hospital, so sad :(

Surely the foal didnt even need a headcollar on? As if it was being caught regularly, they would have noticed this... I might be a bit precious, but if I had sent my mare and 3 week old foal away, I'd go and visit at least once!

Disgusting, I agree, the stud should be named and shamed!
 
muckypony said:
I remember seeing this back in the old days of Rolf Harris Animal Hospital, so sad :(

Surely the foal didnt even need a headcollar on? As if it was being caught regularly, they would have noticed this... I might be a bit precious, but if I had sent my mare and 3 week old foal away, I'd go and visit at least once!

I agree, when my mare went to stud for 3 months (had problems covering) I went to visit her regurlarly even though there wasn't a foal with her just wanted to make sure she was ok. No excuse for the stud though they should have removed it or at least contacted the owner to come and do so.
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Disgraceful of the stud, but sadly not entirely a surprise. I sent my mare to stud, and didn't get to see her as it was about 350 miles away, and I was very unwell at the time. In 2 months she went from looking fab to requiring stitches in her shoulder, and looking like a coat rack. Think it shows us all that so called professionals need monitering.
Saying that, having friends who have worked on studs, the majority of the staff do it for the love of the animals.
 
Sadly it is true - this filly belongs to a friend of mine. She has been very very careful to keep names out of it as she is, I believe, pursuing the legal route so if any of you do know who is involved, please keep it to yourself. Glad to say the filly is healing extremely well after a lot of very good vet care and nursing at home by the owner.
 
Angelbones said:
Sadly it is true - this filly belongs to a friend of mine. She has been very very careful to keep names out of it as she is, I believe, pursuing the legal route so if any of you do know who is involved, please keep it to yourself. Glad to say the filly is healing extremely well after a lot of very good vet care and nursing at home by the owner.
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I'm very glad she's taking legal action. Quite right too. It's appalling that anyone responsible for the care of animals would allow this to happen.

Your friend must have been horrified to find her poor foal suffering like this. :(
 
Angelbones said:
Sadly it is true - this filly belongs to a friend of mine. She has been very very careful to keep names out of it as she is, I believe, pursuing the legal route so if any of you do know who is involved, please keep it to yourself. Glad to say the filly is healing extremely well after a lot of very good vet care and nursing at home by the owner.
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Glad to hear she is on the mendd. Did the owner not go and visit her during the 8 weeks...?
 
chestnuttymare said:
That is horrific, so not one person who works there thought to loosen her head collar. poor wee soul.
Have to ask though, is it normal to send a mare to be covered when she only foaled 3 weeks before? seems a bit wrong. i can't imagine having a bonk 3 weeks after giving birth, and my husband was no stallion! x
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OMG - need a like button!!
 
I used to ride a dealers horses, and I remember bringing one mare home from a local sale, pulling off the tail bandage, and most of her tail coming with it! there was a fleshy stump, riddled with maggots (which thankfully had kept it clean). When we removed her sale number, there were several others under it, so it seems she had been from sale to sale, with no-one removing the tail bandage.
People are unbelievable. I hope the stud gets closed down.
 
Angelbones said:
Sadly it is true - this filly belongs to a friend of mine. She has been very very careful to keep names out of it as she is, I believe, pursuing the legal route so if any of you do know who is involved, please keep it to yourself. Glad to say the filly is healing extremely well after a lot of very good vet care and nursing at home by the owner.
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I should think so too!

Quite apart from the suffering caused to the poor animal, if the owners had bred her to show, that ambition will have been ruined, so they wioll have lost out financially.
I do wonder though, why the foal was wearing a headcollar at 3 weeks, they usually follow their mums quite happily.
For those wondering, it would be quite normal in the wild for the mare to mate again at the 'foal heat' and then feed the existing foal until natural weaning.
 
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