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I had a friend that called me and said that she had adopted two stud colts that had been starved and were on their last limb of starvation and headed quickly towards death.  She exspressed that she had had them for about a month and that they were in stable condition but needed good continuous care to make it the rest of the way. She asked me if I would take the colt in and care for him.  Of course I was oblidged to help any way that I could and I always love a good project to work with, and colts are so cute an sweet too.

I also was curious about what had happened in the past to make him this way.  My friend said all that she knew was that they too were starved to death or there was some talk that they had been struck by lightening.... what are the odds that both mothers were struck by lightening?  Anyways, it was a horrible deal, but he looks to be on the right track now.

He is supposed to be arriving tonight to be with us.  I cannot wait.  Being that he is only about 3 months old, he will have to stay in a stall until he is old enough to romp and play outdoors... Although I will be letting him play in the round pen from time to time so he can burn off energy.  I guess the other good thing is that he will be able to see out of his stall and he has other room mates in the barn too.  Jeffrey and I also spoke about putting one of our newly born goats in there with him once he was of age to seperate from the mother.  That way Heza would have a companion to help get him through this hard time in his life.

I went to visit him on Saturday and he is doing well and not as bad as I anticipated.  He deffinatley has a gleam in his eyes and shows that he is a fighter.