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Enumclaw, Wash., Farm Provides Nursing Service for Orphaned Horses.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2001
By Barbara Clements, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 28--Ali was having none of it, despite Nina Hagen's crooning.
"C'mon, be a good girrrl, you're such a goood girrl."
The 5-year-old mare just glared at Hagen and laid back one ear, then another. Good girl? In your oat mash, lady.
The bay-colored mare stood in a narrow holding stall, with a hole cut in the side at just the right level, so her new charge, standing on the other side, could nurse.
Just a few days ago, the foal's mother died during the delivery, after her uterus and intestines ruptured. So a new mare had to be found for the 4-day-old Knight, so named for the distinctive chess piece-shaped splotch on his forehead....
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