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. . . And then there was Pearl!
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I bought a sweet bay & white tobiano Welsh mare in October 2003 from a nurse that worked at the hospital where I work. She said this little mare, Honey, was getting in a lot of trouble and she needed to sell her ASAP. I only paid $300 for her...and she was well worth it.
We were told she was around fifteen years old and that she was purchased at the local auction. As the winter came on, she became thinner and thinner. A vet visit was made and everything came out normal. She needed some dental work performed in the near future, but nothing that should have made her this thin so fast. She had a very small parasite problem, so we were told to de-worm her every four weeks instead of the six week de-worming we had her and the other horses on, just during the winter.
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On March 24, 2004, she started acting very strange. She didn't eat breakfast, she was very sluggish and her breathing was really funny. I took her into the corral and called my Dad at work and told him he needed to "take care of her."
He looked at her when he got home and said to wait until the weekend and if she didn't improve, he would do what he needed to do.
Saturday, March 27, 2004, we got the biggest suprise ever! Dad went out on the tractor to hay the cows. He wasn't gone but about ten minutes and he came running back into the house, "Scarlett's had her foal! Scarlett's had her foal!"
It was March and Scarlett wasn't due until June. And the foal was solid! What was going on?!
Honey had given birth to a bay filly!
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She was given the name, "JT's Saturday Suprise" and nicknamed "Pearl" for the huge oval marking on her forehead. She was also given the nickname of "Four-legged Parasite." Even the vets were suprised that Honey had had a baby. Since we felt that there was not time for Honey to have been exposed, we didn't even check to see if she was pregnant! Recently, I've gotten in contact with the owner's who sold Honey at the auction and she was briefly exposed to a Mustang stallion!
Honey has been aged, by the vet's, to be a very mature 20 year old, and it came as a huge suprise she was able to survive delivery and supporting a foal. Honey is now with a very nice family in Jasper. She's looking good and will eventually be used as their daughter's playday mount!
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