It's a filly!

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Speaking of conformation ...
As the title says, it's a filly! Fable Zama, part-CMK part-Egyptian
mare that I half-own with my friend, Jan Kalthoff, foaled sometime during the
night March 3rd. Jan went out to feed in the morning and heard a high pitched
whinny, she thought "I haven't heard a whinny like that from Blaze
in quite a while," then she thought, "no ... it can't be ...." Sure enough
arriving 5 days early, but very mature and active, was her new filly. Zama
was sneaky, she wasn't bagged very much at all much less waxed by feeding
time the night before and as far as Jan could tell she hadn't any of the
telltale signs that she was going to foal. First thing I heard was a phone
call from an astonished Jan saying, "It's a filly." Needless to say I dashed
over there and we checked the baby out, called the vet, and admired Zama's
handiwork. There wasn't any placenta left and the baby was passing milk
manure along with the last of her meconium, and she was not very wobbly at all.
So we are guessing that she probably had her around 2 am Mar 3. We examined
the ground around the corrals and arena and found the place where her water
broke and where she laid down to have the baby. Either Zama or the other
horses or the coyotes took care of the placenta, there wasn't a sign of it
left. We dipped her umbilical stump, the vet showed up and checked her out.
He had a new test for blood glucose level and for the IgG and was able to test
her right then and there. She had gotten more than enough immunity but
was marginal in glucose. Examination of the mare showed that she had a big
hematoma on the inside of her vulva and was very sore. The vet felt that
that was the reason the milk wasn't letting down quite as well as it should.
He prescribed some bute and antibiotics and said that that should take care
of it. We gave it to her and within an hour or so the baby was getting more
milk. Zama is being a wonderful mother, even though she was very sore she
was letting her filly nurse whenever she wanted, she is very attentive and
nickers to her a lot.
The new filly is a bay going grey, she has a star with connected strip
and one half-pastern on her left front. She is quite lovely. Jan has
tentatively named her, Misty Zinfandel.

Tracy and everybody

Tracy Scheinkman
Misty Mountain Arabian Sport Horses

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