Tater has a friend that he would like for you to visit and lend your support. His friends name is Tuff. Tuff has been through a Very Tragic experience! Tater would like for you to visit Tuff, and then send your prayers to Tuff. |
This is day two. We had just gotten home from the vet. He had to have a plasma transfusion, and the mare had to be flushed because of a retained placenta. |
This is also Monday. Day two. This little guy has fought hard to survive. He has an unbelievable zest for life. By Saturday we had to take him to the University of Georgia. Our vets could no longer help him and said he had to go. As it turned out, he had a ruptured line leading from the bladder and his insides were filling with his urine. He had to have surgery to repair the damage.I talk with the folks at the University everyday and they say he is doing real well. Actually, I think they are spoiling my horses. Valerie, their caretaker/ nurse, is feeding mom Butterscotch candy and said she loves it. :-) These folks have been very good to both baby and mom. With out them, and all the prayers, we would have lost our very special baby. I can't thank Dr. Fischer and Valerie enough for what they have done for us. When I talked to Valerie today, she said they may get to come home on Sunday, April 21, 2002 I will update with more picture after he gets home. I want to Thank everyone for their prayers and support through all this. |
Visitors Since 4/17/02 |
This page was last updated on: June 21, 2008
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This is day one. 9:30 am. April 7, 2002 Grullo/Grulla Foal |
Grulla Stud Colt Foaled April 7, 2002 We call him Tater |
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4/27/02 |
4/27/02 |
Coming Home !!!! April 27, 2002 |
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This is Valerie with Tater and Shadow the day we got to bring them home. Valerie was sad to see them leave but happy that they were going home. She said she would miss little Tater and Shadow. I told her there would be another foal in for her to take care of. She said there would not be another foal like Tater. Valerie will be going back to her home state of Washington when she finishes school in December and Dr. Fischer will be going to her home state of Wisconsin in July. Good Luck to both of You and may you have great sucess in your futures!! |
Tater...Glad to be home. |
Harley gets to meet Tater up close while he's taking a nap after his trip home. |
7/20/02 |
7/20/02 |
7/20/02 |
Here is an update for those of you who have asked about Tater's health condition. Tater is doing well after a battle with Shipping Fever and every thing seems to be fine from the complications at birth. . The pictures below were taken at 3 1/2 months of age. Our plans are to Show Tater in some AQHA and IBHA Halter next year as a Yearling. We may start him at some local shows this fall. With me being a Barrelacer, I don't know much about the Halter field of showing, but Tater deserves the chance. We will do the best that we know how with this, I hope we don't embarrass Tater. :-) With any luck, I can find someone else to show him for me. Tater's GrandSire just took First place Aged Halter Stallions, Two days in a row at an AQHA Show. |
Not For Sale |
8/10/02 |
8/10/02 |
8/10/02 |
Tater is 4 months old in these photos. |
Tater has a friend that he would like for you to visit and lend your support. His friends name is Tuff. Tuff has been through a Very Tragic experience! Tater would like for you to visit Tuff, and then send your prayers to Tuff. |
OK folks. It has been a while since I have updated Taters page with new Photos. As you can see, both Taters front legs are bandaged up. Tater has had a rough time since birth. In Sept., he had to have surgery on both front legs because he was outgrowing his tendons. The vet had to go in and cut both check ligaments to allow the tendons to relax and stretch. They also added toe extenders to his feet. With this surgery it required a lot of my time. I had to change the wraps every 2 to 3 days for 10 weeks. There was 5 layers of material in the bandaging process. He could not get his feet wet and was confined to a stall, until the day after Thanksgiving, which is when he had his last checkup. The vet was thrilled with his progress. He said " we have accomplished in 10 weeks, what would normally take 6 months to a year!" That was music to my ears! Then he was allowed to start going out for short periods of time to play ( you see some of that in the album also ) and gradually building his time up. He can now stay out several hours at a time, but has not gone to a larger area yet. I still put boots on him for support, I think that's more for my sake than his! As you will also notice in the pictures, Tater has lost a lot weight and body tone. They ( the vets ) took him off all feed, nothing but hay. This was done in an effort to Slow down his growth. I was NOT feeding Tater much to begin with and could not understand how all this was happening to Tater. The Vets told me that this sort of thing happens more than most people realize! I was shocked! I allways thought it was from over feeding and I was being SO CAREFULL NOT to over feed Tater. I was very concerned about his future as a performance horse and a Sire, with this surgery and asked a lot of questions. The Vets ( there are three of them that tended to Tater, once again, everyone Loves Tater. Some of the ladies wanted to pass a full grown Paint horse off for Tater when I went to pick him up, and hope that I wouldn't notice the difference. :-) ) told me that he should be as normal and sound, as any other horse once he is healed from all this. So far everything looks good. As if this were not enough to happen to Tater, he Coliced the very evening I brought him home from surgery. He had to go right back up there and stayed another 4 days. NO surgey on that one, Thank the Good Lord in Heaven for that one! Tater is a very Strong fellow and very determined and so am I. Together, we will get through all this, I probably wont have one nerve left though! The one good thing that came from all this was, I had him tested for the Black gene while he was there, and he tested : Homozygous for the Black gene!! No Red Foals from Tater. |
Never Ending Spirit |
12/2/02 |
Owned and operated by: Melva O'Shields Woodruff,S.C. 864-476-3492 864-590-9664 |
Tater : One Year Later Look at him now! |
Photos taken : June 1, 2003 |
Please excuse the bandages. Tater was out playing and cut his fetlock and got the Artery in the process. He has to stay banaged for a while. |
There are many photos on this page, so it will take a few minutes to load. |
Tater is now on the Stallion page. Watch for him there. |
My first Quality bred Grulla Foal. Grulla/Grullo Stallion with an amazing spirit and zest for life! |
