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| Our June Featured Person is: | ||||||||||||||
| Gina (not an adopter but knows what it's like to raise an orphan) | ||||||||||||||
| NT Scarlets Legacy, our first homebred foal, his tramatic start to his life with the loss of him mom within hours of his birth. Scarlet OHara (CMK, Crabbet Arabian) gave birth on August 2, 2000 around 3:30/3:45 in the afternoon. We missed his actual birth (checked Scarlet around 3pm that afternoon, a relative saw her standing by the gate around 3:30 seeming acting fine) but saw him up and standing and around 4pm. Scarlet would not let her new little baby nurse. I put them up in the stall, she had not finished passing her placenta so we called and talked to our vet. A very short time later Scarlet started rolling and thrashing in her stall. I managed to get the little fellow out of her stall. She was pacing, rolling and thrashing, no safe place for her baby to be. Our daughter, Heather & son Chris, were put in charge of helping with the foal for the time being. Heather eventually was in charge of watching him in the back section of the barn by herself. Friends and relatives were over trying to help me. We were waiting for one friend to bring a shot back from the vet and for eventually for the vet to arrive (he had another emergency come in before he could get away). Scarlet prolapsed her uterus. Blood was everywhere, it was just like you turned your water hose on it was so much blood coming out. She was walking in it ankle deep. (These memories are not easy to 'visit' again but maybe this will help someone out there somewhere). Scarlet was sweating and hot then she went into shock. The vet replaced her uterus and tryed everything he could to save her. We tried to get her baby to nurse to no avail so the vet milked some colostrum. Scarlet lost her fight around 10:45 that night. The vet had milked her and we got the colustrum into our little 'Legacy'.. | ||||||||||||||
| I was determined that this little tyke was going to make it. He was determined too. Legacys first day he was put in the back of my friends Expedition and slept with his head in my lap with a blanket around him, while we drove to get his tetnus shot, given an e coli paste and our vet gave him his first milk replacer, Foal Lac. His IgG tested at greater than 800 My husband picked up some colustrum replacer(Seramune), he was bottle fed every two hours, I also had a good friend 'babysit' him when I had to work. (If anyone is interested I have the exact 'schedule' around here someplace). . Legacy thrived on his Foal Lac and all the human attention. He is a very spoiled fellow! He would NOT drink out of just any human baby nipple! He would only drink out of a certain kind! After learning this boy did I keep a few extra around as they didn't always last very long! We tried off/on to get him to drink out of a bucket. Finally when he was drinking a whopping 64 ounces (can you imagine trying to fill up those bottles quickly? I had two bottles to pour it into from a container that I mixed it up in) at a time for a while, (he was about 5 weeks old then), I decided somehow he had to learn to drink his milk out of his bucket. I bought a calf bottle, boy I can tell you he did NOT like that at all. He ended up missing that meal. He refused to drink out of that calf bottle. At his next scheduled milk time I took the calf bottle back out and the 'bucket' I had a very serious talk with him. I told him he had to help me out. He had to either drink out of this calf bottle or drink out of this bucket. Which one do you think he chose? The bucket! | ||||||||||||||
| He loves to play ball. He will flip it over his back, rear up, run and buck with it. Also he will toss it out of his stall or paddock and watch the WELL TRAINED human (hmm sometimes he thinks he is a human) go fetch it and bring it back! He has been featured on Animal Planets Funniest Animal Videos playing with his ball. His photos have won several contests and he has had a write up about special animals in a local advertiser call "The Guide". He also learned how to turn the barn lights on! I thought someone else left or turned them on when I was at work..... I found out the next day when I KNEW I had turned them off and they came on that the little bugger had done it! Anything he saw a human do he could do to! I had to build a fence around the light switch! He had a camera on him in his stall, when he got tall enough to reach that he turned it upside down so I had to take it out for a while. Now I have it on him again so that I can keep an eye on him since we moved here, my father in laws farm. | ||||||||||||||
| We started at the vets recomendation with Legacys vaccinations when he was one month old. | ||||||||||||||
| Legacy was 50 pounds and 3 feet tall when born. Today he is 14. 1 3/4 hands tall and a very big boy. Legacy sire is FW Eternal Warrier, a lovely tobiano APHA stallion. | ||||||||||||||
| Legacy will be standing at stud in 2003 to a few select mares. Legacy is registered IAHA, PtHA, AIR pending and as soon as I send in the paperwork APAR pending. He has lovely movement and is a well put together upcoming young stallion. | ||||||||||||||
| Here is just one comment from a local Arabian Breeder about NT Scarlets Legacy. | ||||||||||||||
| Beyond pedigree...Legacy is an excellent stallion prospect in both color and conformation.He is the finest example of a colored part-bred colt I have encountered on the eastern shore.Having personally known another pinto part-arabian stallion here who was nationally ranked in the Top Ten for the PtHA,Legacy is definently of that caliber.He is a highly intellegent horse,who has managed to learn many tricks that the average horse is unable to learn.He is a wonderful ambassador for a breed(arabian & part-arabian)that is frowned down upon as being too hot and unmanageable. | ||||||||||||||
| Without a doubt Legacy is high quality.I can not say a lot about the paint side of his pedigree as I am not that familar with paints.The arabian side of his pedigree is excellent crabbet lineage,that is very hard to replace as the number of pure crabbet horses has dwindled so low.In addition his dam carries excellent old lines up very close,which can not be duplicated,now that she has passed.Within Pinto breeding circles this is a high attribute as way too many breeders put color before pedigree,something that was not neglected in his case.As a part-arabian he can only be crossed with purebred arabians for his foals to still be registered with the IAHA.When arabian mare owners look to a part-bred colored stallion,they require the pedigree be equal to,or above the level of color.Legacy satisfies these requirements. | ||||||||||||||
| He has appeared on Animal Planets Funniest Animal Videos playing ball and been featured as a 'Special Animal' in a local seller called & quote;The Guide & quote. | ||||||||||||||
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