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"No Registered Name" Barn Name: "Chocolate Pie" (Barn name compliments of one of our daughters) |
Bay/Tobiano Filly ~ March 7, 2007 |
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DECEASED  MORE PHOTOS BELOW |
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Sire: CLASSY WILL (APHA Bay/Tobiano) ROM and Halter and Performance Futurity Champion Sire. |
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Dam: WOODSTOCK MISS QUINCE (Chestnut) ~ Reserve World Champion (Sire: WOODSTOCK SUNNY MCZIP World and Reserve World Champion Sire) |
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WOW! WHAAAAAAAAAAT A FILLY! She had "Greatness" written all over her! But...On the evening of her birth, Chocolate Pie (CP) started showing signs of belly pain. We called the vet who didn't get the (after-hours) page for some reason. So she never called, nor showed up. But during that time, CP seemed to calm down, passed some gas and got comfortable. She seemed to be out of trouble now. But not long after that she started having pain again. I called out a different vet and we gave her pain meds and got mineral oil into her. It was appearing that she had an impaction, although she had passed the initial (after foaling) fecal matter. We thought perhaps she had more blocking the way, farther up in the intestines. Over the next 24 hrs we waited for the oil to pass and loosen things up. During that time CP maintained well without pain meds and she was nursing. All good signs! But then she started to become lethargic and didn't want to nurse. We then started milking Quincy and feeding CP by putting the milk in her mouth with a syringe. But then she started going down-hill fast and started to get painful again and was passing a bloody fluid from her rectum. We rushed her to the vet clinic at 4am this morning. Our vet met us there and she wasn't even the one on call(bless her heart)! She immediately could tell that CP was going into shock and her body temp was dropping. We covered her with blankets and hot packs, then stepped it up and put her in a hot bath. Also throughout this time she getting warmed IV fluids to help warm and rehydrate her from the inside-out. She came around a couple of hours after all this. Jumped up to her feet, seemed to have some energy back. Then immediately laid down and started rolling in pain. At that point, we opted for surgery. Upon getting inside, we found no impaction, no twist. And then sadly and unexpectedly, CP passed away not long into the surgery. All attempts to resuscitate her, heartbreakingly, failed. At that point we decided to investigate further in hopes of finding out just WHAT went wrong with her. We found a burst bladder (unusual for a filly), intestines that were lined with blood/bloody-goo (for lack of 'big vet words') and absolutely no fecal material what-so-ever in her intestines. Her stomach was so full of gases that it was the size of a volleyball. My interpretation of her problem (without all the big vet words) is...For some reason her body was stimulated to have increased amounts of "Clostridia" (A big vet word for natural stuff in the intestine that helps with digestion. Part of the natural 'flora'. And some of the first bacteria acquired after birth.). Normally these Clostridia are found in low numbers and do not produce 'exotoxins' (the bad guys that ate away at the intestines). The exotoxins were causing the intestines to hemorrhage, deteriorate and not work properly. That would explain the bloody-goo and the lack of fecal matter. The intestines couldn't make poop. Diarrhea is a common symptom with this disorder. But she hadn't quite gotten to that point yet. But was getting ready to. Her intestines were filled with the undigested mare's milk, blood and mineral oil. We're guessing that the bacteria may possibly have eaten away the lining of the bladder too. As far as the cause of all of this...That is a mystery. Everything seemed so perfect with her birth and the care we were able to give her at and after her birth. Just a mystery. :O( What we do know is that we did all that we could for our lil' Chocolate Pie. We'll miss her and will probably, often, stop and ponder on what her future might have been. :O( MORE PHOTOS BELOW. |
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