Magic started sweating Sunday night and was waxed. We watched her through the night and nothing. In the morning she was so nervous and it was a gorgeous warm sunny day so I put her out. She was still nervous until I let Desi out with her. I grabbed my book and sat and watched her. She was up and down a lot rolling and such, but not pushing yet. When she started pushing and nothing presented, I called the vet. Luck would have it that the clutch went out on her truck that morning! :( She told me to check if the cervix was open.. it was. I brought Magic back into the stall where it was at least clean for a foal. She finally started to present and we had a red bag, so I tore that and we got what at first seemed normal - feet... They were front feet, so that was good, but the bottoms were pointing up. BAD! felt inside and head was upside down and turned back. REAL BAD. :-( I called a vet that was closer. He was busy. We called THREE more vets - all busy or no return call! So we called the first vet back and cried for help. He headed out. I kept her walking to keep her from pushing. Vet got here and couldn't get head turned either. Called vet clinic, said get her there FAST! We assumed that the foal was dead by this time and we were just trying to save the mare.

The trailer ride apparently did the trick and the foals head was just at the entrance to the birth canal when they checked her, AND it had flipped over. They pulled and as she was coming out I saw her BLINK!!! I almost screamed that she was alive and everyone was galvanized into action! They rushed and got oxygen for the foal and dried her off and warmed her up. They eventually moved mom and filly to a stall, at which point everything went wrong.

I was told that they preferred not to have the owners in there and was also told that they would NOT release her yet for me to take home. The next day I picked them both up and paid the bill. We were charged for a number of things that later became very evident that they had NOT been done! They charged for pulling mom's milk and giving the filly extra colostrum in addition to mom's (which tested out as fine). They also charged to give the mare a series of oxytocin shots to help her pass the placenta, plus they charged to examine the placenta and to flush the mare. Two days later Magic crashed and my regular vet said she was starting to founder. She flushed her and retrieved an entire uterine horn of the placenta that was still in the mare!!!! We have photos to prove this. The filly started to go septic on us as well and when her IgG levels were tested, it was VERY clear that she received very little colostrum and NO supplemental colostrum at all. Despite almost 3 weeks of valiant effort, little Valentine passed peacefully over the rainbow bridge on March 6, 2005.

Valentine was a rather amazing filly. She was a moderate sabino with a large belly spot in the girth area, another belly spot to the side under her belly in front of the back leg, disconnected spots on the inside of her back legs and lots of face white, including under her jaw and disconnected spots on the sides of her face. Her ears were small and tippy and her back short with a long level hip. This cross will be repeated.

WS Valentine Miracle Bay 2005	HAAP Ibn Farrago	HAAP Farrago	LM Executive	Exceladdinn
				LM Tiara
			Fantasia Vu	SR Rico
				La Tesora
		DRF Kim Nicole	Kimfaaron	Kimfa
				Spruce Cresann
			Novela	*Nizzam
				Nima
	LF Ebony Magic	Seattles Onyx	Le Dez++	*Bask++
				Sey Cherie++
			Mintlanes-Shalal	Shabaoud
				Mint Lanes Khelala
		Ebony Miss Tawny	Darq Omen	Darq+++
				Charismet
			Ghaalia	Gayronek++
				Zem Janai

Val's first day outside

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