Essence
Essence arrived on March 8, also heavily pregnant. She was 10 years old (born in June of 1994) and delivered a colt on June 14, 1995. She was so upset at having her foal in a place she hadn’t settled into yet that she abruptly stood up, pulling on Koda’s umbilicus and creating a hole in his ureter. At 18 hours old, we here loading the mare and foal into the trailer and heading to a veterinary hospital where Koda underwent surgery for removal of the umbilicus and bladder repair. Urine had been leaking into his abdomen and would have killed him within 24 hours.
Essence will not be able to go under saddle – she has stifle problems and hind end problems due to having foal after foal and inadequate exercise. We need to raise funds (approximately $800) in order to give her IRAP injections, hoping that will help her stifles and enable her to be more comfortable.