My wonderful Arabian mare High Mystress "Tessie" gave birth to a large bay filly. Shortly after foaling Tessie was lost due to a uterine artery rupture.
Tessie was a beautiful mare and an awesome mom and it was extremely hard to say good-bye on a day that should have been filled with joy.
Tessie gifted us with our first foal by our stallion Prowlerr and what a treasure our Journey has been! This has been my first experience with raising an orphan foal and it has been much easier then I anticipated. Journey took to bottle feeding very quickly being a healthy foal who received colostrum right away and a visit from a very kind knowledgeable equine vet she never encountered any health issues. My husband and daughters all took shifts with bottle feedings the first week and then we introduced the momma igloo and Kisses the mini jenny. Kisses stepped in as the babysitter and did a great job of teaching Journey the ways of the world.
Journey is now a big (14HH already) gorgeous yearling. Hard to believe that a year has pasted but time marches on!
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High Mystress in her showing days.
Journey and Kisses March 2008
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