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Neonatal maladjustment syndrome (NMS) is a syndrome where newborn foals exhibit uncommon behaviors, occurring in three to five percent of live births. These behaviors can include aimless wandering, hypersensitivity to loud sounds and brightness, weakness or coordination issues, and the incapability to nurse.
On March 5, 2015, Groupie Doll delivered her first foal, a colt by Tapit about a week before her original March 11 due date, Wayne Sweezey of Timber Town Stable confirmed March 28. There was a problem with the delivery and the premature colt was rushed immediately to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington for critical nursing care.
A foal at about weaning age. A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
At the time, the name of the agency was Evangelical Welfare Agency. The agency was later called Christian Adoption and Family Services. In 1994, Ron Stoddart, a California adoption attorney, assumed leadership. [5] The agency changed its name to Nightlight Christian Adoptions and has offices in multiple states. [2]
A healthy, well-managed mare can produce a foal every year into her twenties, though not all breeders will breed a mare every year. In addition, many mares are kept for riding and so are not bred annually, as a mare in late pregnancy or nursing a foal is not able to perform at as athletic a standard as one who is neither pregnant nor lactating .
Neonatal isoerythrolysis occurs if a foal is born with a blood group that is different from its dam, and then receives antibodies against those red blood cells (alloantibodies) through the mare's colostrum, leading to the lysis of the foal's red blood cells. There are thus three requirements for this disease to occur:
Rags to Riches was sent to Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky where she had her first foal and was exported to Ireland in 2009. She was returned to America for the 2016 breeding season. That year, she was bred to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, but she did not get in foal, so she was bred to Uncle Mo instead and produced a colt in 2017.
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board.