Amazingly the little premature titch is still alive and doing well on Day 4. He hasn’t mastered suckling from his mother yet but is having a very good try and will probably succeed today. He is out in the field tottering around and every so often attempting a gamble. This often ends up with him spreadeagled on the ground like Bambi on ice. He is taking about 500mls of lamb milk replacer every day so I am very hopeful now that he will make it.
We ran out of plasma yesterday so we had a nice vampire session with the older geldings taking 450 mls of blood from each and spinning it down in our centrifuge to get the plasma – nineteen tubes of which are now in the freezer so we have what is required should an iffy cria be born.