| We sent cowboys out and attempted to capture her, she eluded us but she was able to be captured the next morning. Our suspicion that she was ill was correct, she had an abscess that had burst and unfortunately contracted Pythiosis (swamp cancer). We were able to start wound care for her right away and she is doing quite well at the moment. The vet team spends nearly 2 hours a day doing wound care and soaking of this afflicted area so hats off to them for taking this on!
Yesterday a new foal was born to Fancy Free a ‘21 mare in the northern herd. While the foal appeared to be doing well in morning, by mid afternoon the mother was spotted walking with the herd with no foal. After verifying the foal was indeed not with the mother we began to search. We searched and eventually found the baby not far from where he was spotted that morning. The decision was made with with vet consultation that the best thing for the foal would be a nurse mare situation seeing as the mother had already high tailed it and was nowhere to be found. So once again we called upon EJ, a mare from the Chincoteague Pony Farm who has adopted a foal the past two years for us. We took the foal there by boat from Assateague and with a little help he immediately nursed. The vet team gave him a plasma transfusion and monitored him and helped him nurse through the night. His new adopted sister who is seven weeks old is not a fan of him but EJ once again proves she is worth her weight in gold. He is not out of the woods but #87 has a fighting chance!
Send good thoughts for recovery of both of these ponies in the Pony ICU and the vet team who are already in the swing of things. |
