Here she Is

I got a call from Linda the barn owner at 1:00 AM telling me that Jazzy was going into labor. I rushed to the barn and sure enough Jazzy was going to have that foul that night. Some people might have thought that it was disgusting, but I found it to be quite amazing. Rev was born around four AM. It was a quiet labor and everything happened exactly as it should. Rev seemed to be a healthy foul. The first that that happened was we got her airways cleaned out so she could breathe properly. The complications started occurring when Jazzy would not let Rev nurse. It is curial for a foul to get milk with in the first hour of birth. It can be the cause of life and death between foals. Lucky were already prepared and had had a baby bottle ready incase this happened. I held Jazzy and Russell helped show Rev where to nurse. If I was holding Jazzy and he was holding Rev then everything was fine, but who can be out to do that several times a day. The vet was called and he told us to keep doing what we were doing for the next few hours and Jazzy would soon catch on. By the time the sun had come up and the dew on the grass was dry Rev was nursing on her own. When Rev was born she was a dark bay with a little dot of white between her eyes. Her legs were black all the way up to her knees. She was the cutest foul I had ever seen.