April 23, 2005 was a very bad day
here at the ranch. We lost Summere' and the baby. She delivered
the foal at around 2am but it was still born because the placenta
came out over the water sac. It was a black filly with a star.
Then Summer couldn't get up. We call the vet and he came out and
we ran fluids and got her propped up against some straw bales.
She was alert but very uncomfortable. She was laboring to
breathing and her uterus was prolapsed. By about 10am she was
died. We couldn't do anything for her. Bill had her insured and
the vet did a necropsy and found that she had a small rupture in
her stomach that had been leaking into her abdominal cavity. He
said that it was probably going on for some time and that is what
triggered the early delivery.
Bill buried her here on the ranch
along with her foal. It just hurts so much when you lose a horse
and it hurts so much more when you lose two a mother and foal.
She was the grandkids' first horse they ever rode and Bill's first
walking horse. She has made so many great memories here at the
ranch and we enjoyed riding her every year. I will miss her
deeply. She was the heart of our herd and now God has a wonderful
riding horse.
