Newborn Baby Horse Couldn't Stand Up At All, Until...

The moment he finally latched onto his mama was when they knew he was gonna be OK

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00:01Be careful, she's protective.

00:02I went over to him and expected him just to jump up.

00:06Every attempt he made to stand up, he would come crashing on the ground.

00:12I knew something was up because babies get up quickly and they're attempting to nurse.

00:19We arrived at the vet and they missed the nutrients.

00:24We were going to do whatever it took.

00:28Finally, he starts suckling out of the bottle and he said, he's getting it, he's learning how to drink.

00:40He wasn't latched onto her yet, but he was able to stand and to walk.

00:46We're thinking, he's running with his mother.

00:48We couldn't believe he was so stable.

00:50And he comes back and crashes and we had to rush him to the vet for the second time.

00:55We found out that if a baby didn't get squeezed exactly right as they came out of the birth canal,

01:02some chemicals hadn't been turned off.

01:05Oh, wake up those little legs.

01:07The vet put him through this squeeze procedure with the ropes wrapped around him.

01:18He came out and he slowly started gaining his equilibrium.

01:22We got pretty close at the vet's office with him trying to latch on with their assistants.

01:28We headed back home and he started teaching him and showing him the mother's udders.

01:33That was so good.

01:38Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

01:40That moment of him finally getting it, it meant that he, he was going to live.

01:46He was going to survive.

01:47So rewarding to see them being a mother and a foal for the first time without us intervening.

01:55There is hope in a lot of situations if you just give it some love and patience.