More rescues

so two weeks ago we rescued a haflinger X TWH mare. She is super sweet great and will be a awsome trail horse. Then my mother decides that we can take these two Donkeys that were in the kill pens about to go on there 24 hour trailer ride to mexico to end up on the plates of some french aristocrat over in Europe. These Donkeys are a Mare and Filly. The mom or Jennet can be seen in this video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTW2C2Bkfo

As you can see she is walking on her heels and the person who hauled her said she has severe laminitis. So the hauler said she would arrive at 9:00PM well 9:00PM turned into 1:00AM. So i pulled a all-nighter and we prepared to transfer the horses from the haulers trailer to ours becasue the moms laminitis was so bad she couldn't walk up our driveway.

The filly who was "Wild" was asleep when we went to transfer so we were able to get a halter on her. We then backed the trailers up to each other and our trailer has a swing out door so we were able to use that as a wall so the horses didn't run off. On the other side was our volunteers very nice all leather mazda convertible. So we transfered the donkeys. from one trailer to the other pretty eaisly.

We got them to the barn and settled and the mom who already had a name "Lily" and the baby which we didn't. Before we left i said isn't she precious so we thought "precious" would be a sutible name. The next day or should i say later that morning the vet came by. Before he got there though i went out and chatted with the volunteers and discovered that "precious" had relaxed. If you are a horse savvy person then relaxed means that in male horses they dropped there penis and had relaxed. Well this came as a shock seeing as Precious was suppose to be a girl. after dispute and feeling around it was definite that Precious was in fact a boy.

So the vet came and palpated Lily who was not pregnet luckily. Lily did have a fever of 104( normal is 99- to 100) he also diagnosed that she had a upper respitory virus which is why she was coughing. He then gave her a B12 shot and a antibiotic. we also have to dissolve her antibiotic and inject it into her mouth twice a day. now that was fun! the vet also said her lamanitis didn't seem to severe and that she was walking better. so now all we have to do is nurse her and her "colt" back to health.

on another note i got my roomate she is a sophomore transfer student. Also majoring in equine but in theraputic.

life is good on the kent farm. one rescue ata time.