Welcome to MHR's Blog

We're taking the plunge into the new year and starting a blog. We hope you'll enjoy seeing frequent updates and photos on the horses you all know and so generously support. We'll also keep you posted on current projects and plans for the future.

Stephanie Pierce
Founder

You're welcome to send comments to miraclehorserescue01@gmail.com

The Name that Foal Game is about to begin

The Name that Foal Poll is now closed and we have your picks for names: If it's a colt, it will be Nellie's Dream (barn name Dreamer) and if it's a filly, it will be Nellie's Hope (barn name Hope).

It will depend on colt or filly as to who will be the recipient of the keepsake memory box and the exclusive picture of the baby. Stay tuned!

We will start the poll for Apple soon.

Please note that the poll does not seem to work with Mozilla Firefox, but does with Windows Internet Explorer.

One person, one vote! It may be possible to fool the software (it usually is), but the safest thing is to expect to be able to vote only once per colt and once per filly (per mare).


We also have a separate contest on birth date. See http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=22324.1 for details on how to stake your date and time.


Thank you!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Nellie - second hospital report

Nellie will have 8 big bags of fluids administered over night. The vet wanted to do a tap of the belly fluids to see if the fluid was clear, but there is so much sand in her gut that the vet couldn't proceed.

There is no impaction but the intestine has rolled to the side just a bit. Nellie has a giant gas bubble.

Please pray that this fluid treatment works. The surgery option is not encouraging, not only because of cost ($6500 if we're lucky, $8000-10000 on the high side), but because it would be very very hard on a mare of Nellie's size. She would have to be heavily wired to keep from rupturing during foaling.

Because we don't have a good idea of breeding date, the vet can only guess that the foal is about 60 days away from being born. As mentioned before, the foal is very active.

Stephanie and Rob are on their way home now. More tomorrow. Good night all.

Posted by Miracle Horse Rescue, Inc. at 1:14 AM