A mare gave birth a few nights ago to a healthy foal, but the mare died from complications of the birth. The breeder whose mare this was noted the sadness in social media, and was soon matched with a different horse breeder (of a different horse breed) who also had had a birth at the farm, but this time the foal was born dead. A horse-trailer and some goodwill, and the orphan foal was transported to the bereaved mother mare. The foal was rubbed with the new mother's blanket, the mare promptly accepted the new baby, the baby drank enough milk to create a new round foal-breed and then the new mother-child pair nuzzled each other.
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