Rachel Alexandra improved, but not out of the woods
Rachel Alexandra remains inwards a serious status exactly she is stable equally she recovers from abdominal surgical operation performed at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital inwards Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday.
Doctors at the infirmary said the 2009 Horse of the Year remains brilliant together with alarm alongside normal vital signs. On Saturday, she began receiving a real small-scale sum of feed inwards improver to her IV fluids together with nutrition. Although Rachel’s status remains serious, attention veterinarians Dr Bonnie Barr together with Dr Brett Woodie are encouraged past times her progress to this point.
Following foaling, Rachel was rushed to the infirmary on Wednesday to undergo exploratory abdominal surgical operation to decide the elbow grease of excess fluid inwards her abdominal cavity denoting an infection.
Surgery identified that the elbow grease of the infection was a department of the small-scale colon that had lost its blood render due to an injury during foaling causing bacteria to locomote released into the abdomen. The damaged department of intestine was removed together with extensive abdominal lavage was performed to take away inflammatory cells together with bacteria. Due to the nature together with the extent of the work the surgical operation was long together with technically demanding.
Rachel’s Bernardino filly is nether the tending of a nurse mare, Miss Beutiful Ojos, together with has bonded alongside her novel mother.
A nurse mare raised Rachel Alexandra when her dam, Lotta Kim, rejected her.
Miss Beutiful Ojos is a quarter Equus caballus who has been a nurse mare at Stonestreet Farm before. Nurse mares are oft quarter or draft horses, together with it is imperative that they possess expert nurse mare characteristics. Stonestreet said Miss Beutiful Ojos, or “Ojos” for short, is both real sugariness together with a keen milk producer, 2 of the most of import nurse mare qualities.
If Rachel recovers, her foal alongside non locomote returned to her, equally the filly has bonded alongside Ojos, together with she straightaway considers Ojos to locomote her mother. She volition rest alongside her until she is weaned. Stonestreet said: “Rachel’s status remains serious together with she volition require her forcefulness equally she fights to recover. Even if she were able to render to her foal, her milk production would accept ceased.”
Ojos is a “professional” nurse mare. She foaled a palomino filly on Wednesday. Rachel’s filly was mitt fed until Ojos arrived on Thursday, alone later on her ain palomino filly was able to larn the ‘first milk’, or all-important colostrum from her ain mother. This is something Ojos’ possessor is real describe of piece of work solid about.
Ojos’ filly is existence mitt raised along alongside some other foal whose woman parent is too a nurse mare. This picayune filly volition locomote bottle, together with hence bucket fed along alongside her stall mate. They are both nicely bred quarter Equus caballus foals together with she is expected to locomote a reining or cutting prospect.
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