A very sad 24 hours
This colt presented as a pretty bad dystocia and I was happy to have enough experience to get him out. He was born with very contracted knees and fetlocks and was unable to stand and nurse, even after we put casts on his legs. We bottle fed him for 24 hours, but Gharbo was becoming uninterested and her milk production was decreasing (we think she knew the colt had no chance), so we put him down.
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