I wish you good luck with this little boy. I hope you got at least the beast milk out of the mare for him.

no she had no milk at all. I got synthetic colostrum from the vets office and fed it to him. For 100 dollars a bottle it better be the best man has to offer.

Ah ok. And 100 bugs is still very cheap... go try to buy it here in Germany... good luck with that ^^

We are lucky. I get stuff nearly at cost and the vets office is 10 min down the road from me. I have another vet across town that I have personal numbers to, can call any time with any question and I can just walk in and say "I need whatever CCs of x substance for such and such" and he trusts me even if its narcotics.

That is good. I have a vet like that too. She trusts me... and normally i tread mi horses by myself as far as injections ect goes.

Same here.

Ah well at least your lady wont let him languish. Poor fellow hope he does ok.

Im hoping she can atleast show him the ropes of being a horse. Last time we had an orphin nobody helped. We taught her to run... if I recall correctly by having her follow us around on the lawn tractor and a bicycle.

He looks like he'll be a handfull! Has he shown his personality yet?

Not much of one. Hes trying to figure out what this big blue room is and all these other creatures

Awww..... *gives him a cuddle* At least he seems well loved, even if his mommy doesn't want him.

Handsome boy, I am a sucker for drafts^^ I wish you the most of luck with him, we had a mare reject a foal a few years back and it was hell but so worth it in the end

OMG AWWWS!!!!
He looks like a foal we had last year. Almost simular story. Big Red's mother was abused and we took her from a nauction and she was pregnant. 3 weeks later here comes surprize Baby. Lucky he was still alive. Mother had no milk either...and after a while..she just wouldnt have anything to do with him... :uckily..There was another mare that already had a weaned foal and was still producing milk so we thought give it a try and they stuck like glue.

We dont know what he is mixed with but he is HUGE!!!

Pics:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i.....ndotrip033.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i.....ndotrip014.jpg


The other Foal in this pic, Juicy Fruity, is actually almost 2 months older than Big Red. (random theme for names that year haha)

So cute :D

d'aww! what a cutie! i hope everything goes well!

I love draft horses. And baby drafts are CUTE He's so cute! That's so sad that the mother rejected him...but that happens. I hope the "little" guy does well.

So far so good I am about to go out for the midnight feeding.

Oh what a cute little fella!! It´s really a sad issue, that hes Mom don´t want him. Without the genuine Mare Milk it´ll be pretty difficult to build up hes immune system, because the first Milk the Colostrum is essentially important for further live. How can you compensate this?

Daaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!!!!!! He's the cutest thing everrrrrrrr!!!