Blossom
On April 23rd, 2024 Lacey delivered a beautiful little girl. Lacey is young, so we’re pretty sure this is her first baby and she is doing everything right as a new mother. It’s too soon to tell from her baby coat what color she will be, but her mother was rounded up from Palomino Butte, the same herd as Lily. The baby might turn out to be golden (the predominant color of that herd) - or maybe grulla. It really doesn’t matter what color she turns as she is perfection.
The first 24 hours are critical, so we watch newborns like hawks in the delicate early days of their lives. Dr. Findlay came that day to monitor mother and daughter. The foal has an umbilical hernia, which will be no problem to correct. She’s not as robust as we like to see newborns, but we’re making sure she gets everything she needs.
Just to be safe, they will stay in the Skydog nursery until the baby is big enough to move into a larger pen with companions - and she’ll have many. Two other mares we rescued from kill pens will give birth in the coming weeks of spring.
The April full moon that heralded her birth is known as the Pink Moon, named for the pink wild flowers that appear this time of year in North America. With a seasonal explosion of rosy hues all around us, and the Pink Moon moving across the sky above us, we decided to name this precious little foal Blossom.
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Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3475 in the House / S.2307 in the Senate). This bill will shut down the slaughter pipeline that sends some 20,000 American horses and donkeys to savagely monstrous deaths in foreign slaughterhouses every year.
The Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act of 2023 (H. R. 3656) This bill will prohibit the use of helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft in the management of wild mustangs and burros on public lands, and require a report on humane alternatives to current management practices.
Ejiao Act of 2023 (H.R. 6021). To ban the sale or transportation of ejiao, a gelatin made from boiling donkey skins, or products containing ejiao in interstate or foreign commerce, which brutally kills millions of donkeys primarily for beauty products and Chinese medicine.
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