Prayer Request and Praise Report

[TinyTexasCowgirl]

My Aunt was involved in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening. She flipped several times and landed on her head hard enough to split the helmet into several pieces. She has some major cuts and bruises, a shattered shoulder and arm, but miraculously no brain or spine damage. Praise god. Please pray for her a speedy recovery.

While all of this is going on, my mare had her colt a few weeks ago. She has really started to draw down on me the last 2 weeks to the point where no matter what I feed her she is a walking skeleton. It had gotten to the point where I was ready to put her to sleep and bottle raise my colt. My Uncle Mark, who is my injured Aunt's husband overheard a conversation I was having to make arrangements to have the mare put to sleep. He promptly told me that wasn't an option and told me to bring my mare to his place which has belly deep coastal hay growing and turn her out there, which is close enough to me that I can go and supplement the colt with bottled a few times a day to try and help the mare out a little. With all that is going on in his world, he still reached out to help me. Praise god for good people and amazing family. Please offer a prayer of gratitude for people like him and ask for strength and guidance for him.

P.S. if any of you horse people have hints on my mare, please feel free to offer advice. She has been wormed, checked by a vet on teeth and palpated to make sure nothing got left in, she has been getting 8, yes, 8lbs of Omalene broodmare feed twice a day, 4 scoops of weight builder powder, and free choice hay and grass. I'm at a loss on what else to do for her and she is literally scaring me that I'll walk out there and she's gonna be dead.

[LoftinCattleCo]

If possible shut the colt off of her at times that should help... And dbl handfull of rabbit pellets are pretty good to add in with feed also.

[TinyTexasCowgirl]

Are you meaning in the mare's feed? The colt, oddly enough, isn't even beginning to sniff Momma's feed. Every other baby I've had was at least showing interest, but both this mare's colts had to be completely weaned before even remotely wanting to try feed.

[MrsLouisianaHogDog]

Sending many positive wishes your way for your Aunt first and foremost, and I hope your mare comes around as well!

[CutNShootHD]

Prayers go out to yall, thoughts on the mare:  Panacur power pack for bloodworms, and silly question but is she actually eating all that food??  Maybe a senior diet to put some weight on her?  If her diet wasn't increased initially when she had the foal to compensate for the foal nursing, she may just need to get caught up.  I sure hope you get her lined out, good luck

[Circle C]

I don't have an answer on the mare, but I do know that one of the geldings I used to own was fed free choice alfalfa and 16# of Omolene 200 daily as a maintenance feed.  Maybe she needs more calories than she's getting...   If she will eat it, I'd add a a few cups of oil to each feeding to up the caloric intake without the increased chance of founder.

[firemedic]

I'll be praying Meagan.

[dub]

Prayers sent

[justincorbell]

Tiny, i hate to hear the events you are dealing with right now. I hope things start to looks up for you and your family and your mare turns it around as well, keep your head up Mam, things always find a way of workin themselves out.

[dodgegirl]

Sending prayers to you & your family. Hope to hear good news soon.

[LoftinCattleCo]

Are you meaning in the mare's feed? The colt, oddly enough, isn't even beginning to sniff Momma's feed. Every other baby I've had was at least showing interest, but both this mare's colts had to be completely weaned before even remotely wanting to try feed.

Yes in the mates feed.. It's pretty hot so you have to be limited on how much you give them but it sure will make a difference in one growing off

[TinyTexasCowgirl]

Hey. Sorry. Been dealing with all the stuff here. I took the mare to the vet yesterday on my way to take her to the new pasture. Had a blood panel and fecal done on her. She was slightly wormy, bout a 3 on the 1-10 scale. We are running a power pack on her this week. She tested low red bood cell count, but everything else was fine. Couldn't find a cause on the red cell being so low. We also had her teeth checked, and they are in the best 18 yr old condition my vet had ever seen. He said if we didn't know with 100% accuracy that she is 18 he'd have guessed her at 15-17.

CutNShoot and Circle C, Yes, she is actually eating ALL that feed, and asking for more. She's on a 14/8 broodmare/Senior type feed. I upped her feed back in April when the baby was due, and never backed off it, he FINALLY made his appearance 3 weeks late on May 7. I've tried the oil on her previously with no results, it's not that she won't eat it, it just didn't have any effect on her, even when her feed was dang near floating in it. I'm trying Red Cell on her now and will see how it turns out, she got her first ounce of it today.  After 24 hrs on the (previously fertilized, as in April) coastal hay patch she is now turned out on she is acting way more perky than she has been so that's a good sign. She is always a very worrisome momma, starts nickerin and searching if her babies get more than about 20 yards from her. Before being on the dang good grass, she had gotten to where she was so tired and weak that she wouldn't even look up when her colt wandered off, now she's back to huntin for him if he gets to far for her liking which is a good sign to me.

My aunt isn't doing so hot, she is still having touches of amnesia when she wakes up from a nap and can't remember why she's in the hospital. They ran another cat scan today, but I didn't hear about the results. They are also putting off her orthopedic surgery on her SHATTERED shoulder and left arm, but won't say why. Ugh. Please keep her in your prayers.