Update van het ezeltje....ze drinkt nog steeds niet uit zichzelf...blijven duimen!!
X-Phile and her new black jennet continue working on getting that foal over the hurdles she has faced since birth Friday night at 11:38. The foal is down on all 4 pasterns but that will correct itself in due time. Our biggest hurdle is she has no sucking reflex whatsoever. It appears as you are watching that she is nursing but she has not sucked one time on her mother's teats. She goes to them, smells them, touches them, sort of licks off the milk on them but has never NURSED, This is very important she learn this reflex and the mom MUST stay with her to get this done. Several have written to me that the mother is being mean at times trying to wake up the baby. She is only following her instinct as a mother to get that baby up and nursing every 15 minutes or so. I know it looks bad to you viewing but it is necessary to keep mother in the loop. Last thing we need is for her to reject her foal.
We are feeding her every 2 hours through a feeding tube and using the mother's milk keeping her milked out and producing milk.
Please pray that we can get the foal over this hurdle and on to getting her up and nursing on her own.
Thanks for all your calls and e-mails.
Keep those prayers flowing. We have not named the baby as yet.
Sandy