Buy One Get One Free

Most of you who have been with us for a while remember when we went down and adopted Cindy’s horse “Mustang Sally” and you have read that we had the suspicion that she just may be pregnant although when we asked the shelter workers if Sally was pregnant the answer was “Not that we know of” well about 8:20pm last night the answer came to us. I made the joke this morning while we were out viewing the newest member of our family that the shelter actually gave us a good deal because it appears we got a Buy One Get One Free deal.

Sally began acting like she was having a few labor pains and contractions yesterday so our watch on her was a bit closer than normal, she actually laid down once and rolled a bit while she did a little stretching routine, when she stood her shape was beginning to change a bit, her belly had a noticeable lump that was not there before and it doesn’t take a genius to figure what was happening.

About 8:00pm she began to get a bit agitated and Cindy yelled for me to come out because it appeared Sally’s water had broke, by the time I got out her bag was hanging out, it looked like a white balloon sort of and then out popped a leg, Sally was still walking around at this point, she pushed a bit and the nose appeared next to the hoof of the other front leg, she laid down at this point and out came the head, I could see the blaze of white between his eyes at this point, she had a hard time due to the other leg being bent a little but did a fantastic job of delivering this baby, at the end she was so worn out that the colt had to kick his back legs out on his own bringing himself fully into this world around 8:20pm last night.

Midway through the actual birth

She seemed to ignore him a bit at first and we were all worried for a little while until he tried to stand and bumped his head on the pipe corral, he laid back and gave out a soft whinny which was pretty neat to hear and Sally looked back at him and answered with a whinny of her own, this is when the Momma came out in her, she began cleaning him up and nudging him to stand which he soon did and this morning he is actually attempting to run a bit and is doing the nurse for a bit, run around, then lay down and nap routine.

It was amazing to watch this birth from start to finish, it was a blessing that he came into this world as strong and healthy as he appears considering the problems Sally had been through before we got her, I wanted to share this miracle of life we got to witness last night with you and hopefully the Grandbaby will follow pretty quickly because it appears Granny and Papa just may have him a pony already.