Queenie the shire

I thought I could see another horse behind and it certainly hasn't helped judging by the swinging around and flat back ears. For one moment I did consider pain or colic with her doing that but then thought she is trying to protect her dead foal from another horse. How sad :(
 
I have a horrible feeling that the foal was stillborn, just because they seemed so confident of her foaling yesterday and her taking until now to give birth, but we might never know.

But I do think we need to remember we can only see so much, maybe they should have been in there earlier, but nobody's perfect and they were clearly devastated :(

I don't think updating the internet will be their immediate priority atm either...
 
I actually hope that they can't get her a foster foal tbh, as if the foal were going to be big enough to suckle from her, then another shire mare will have died :(
 
Not necessarily so, a shire fostered a Lustino a while ago, so long as its a fair sized foal it will do ok.
 
As many of you will have seen this evening, Queenie went into much anticipated labour. At 11.45pm she gave birth to a beautiful filly foal. Although she had a perceptible heartbeat when she was born she was not breathing. Emma, tried hard and long to get her to breathe with the help of Farmer Morris. Throughout this period a vet was on the phone talking the team through procedures. None of our efforts could save her and she peacefully slipped away a few minutes after her birth.
As you can imagine, we are all devastated by this awful and unexpected outcome. Although watchers of the foaling tonight will have seen the true grim realities of animal husbandry this in no way belittles the personal sense of tragedy and loss we are all feeling. The sense of bitter disappointment is tempered only with the fact that the filly foal did not suffer at all.
We hope you will understand that we are no longer having the webcam in Queenie’s stable.
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Posted on the website just now as the cam went off air.

Rest in Peace little foaly and love to Queenie
 
Taken from their website


As many of you will have seen this evening, Queenie went into much anticipated labour. At 11.45pm she gave birth to a beautiful filly foal. Although she had a perceptible heartbeat when she was born she was not breathing. Emma, tried hard and long to get her to breathe with the help of Farmer Morris. Throughout this period a vet was on the phone talking the team through procedures. None of our efforts could save her and she peacefully slipped away a few minutes after her birth.

As you can imagine, we are all devastated by this awful and unexpected outcome. Although watchers of the foaling tonight will have seen the true grim realities of animal husbandry this in no way belittles the personal sense of tragedy and loss we are all feeling. The sense of bitter disappointment is tempered only with the fact that the filly foal did not suffer at all.

We hope you will understand that we are no longer having the webcam in Queenie’s stable.
 
Kadastorm said:
As many of you will have seen this evening, Queenie went into much anticipated labour. At 11.45pm she gave birth to a beautiful filly foal. Although she had a perceptible heartbeat when she was born she was not breathing. Emma, tried hard and long to get her to breathe with the help of Farmer Morris. Throughout this period a vet was on the phone talking the team through procedures. None of our efforts could save her and she peacefully slipped away a few minutes after her birth.
As you can imagine, we are all devastated by this awful and unexpected outcome. Although watchers of the foaling tonight will have seen the true grim realities of animal husbandry this in no way belittles the personal sense of tragedy and loss we are all feeling. The sense of bitter disappointment is tempered only with the fact that the filly foal did not suffer at all.
We hope you will understand that we are no longer having the webcam in Queenie’s stable.
.....

Posted on the website just now as the cam went off air.

Rest in Peace little foaly and love to Queenie
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I'm so very sorry, that was heartbreaking to watch. Awful for all involved. xx
 
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