Lucy - just bitten by brown snake

We had no idea the foal had jut been bitten by a brown snake. She lived in the end - we called the vet immediately. Littel Joe can tell she's a bit off immediately, notice his behaviour towards her.. I honestly think he's trying 'pep' her up.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• lucy
• foal
• horses
• brown
• snake
• bitten

[kozmon0t]

That one horse knew something was up but the other horses ignored the whole thing

[fassifernit]

@kozmon0t Little Joe is Lucy's brother - the two are very close ;) it's nice to see love in the animal kingdom, mind you, they can also be quite sirley at times :)

[Oldskool01Hakken]

Dude this isn't a very nice video. I know this is nature but fuck man I'm sure I heard a couple of giggles.

[fassifernit]

@Oldskool01Hakken dude - read the blurb - and some of the comments by 'horse' people below - most of what is happening is completely normal - so we weren't being a-holes - round about the last 20 seconds is really the first sign something is wrong - yeah we were giggling, it was a fun morning. btw - thanks for the hit - this vid has been making youtube money for me for 3 years now.

[summerhorse]

Just curious how did you know it was a brown snake?

That is not normal young horse behavior. Any horse that restless and rolling is telling you something. Usually it means colic but it sure took someone a long time to notice something was wrong. And I've had horses for 30 years but even people here who say they don't know anything about horses are clued in immediately!

[fassifernit]

@summerhorse disagree with you there - every foal we've had has similar play sessions - Lucy in particular (to this day does strange stuff from time to time) - she recently featured in an equine pictorial gallery.

Reason we knew it was a brown snake is that it was a dry season, blacks don't come out that much in dry seasons - mainly wet, browns do, and generally very aggressive.

[fassifernit]

@angelmouse432 - ah yes - another equine professional - if you don't recognize these activities as normal horse behaviour untill the end of the vid it proves your ignorance, not your stupidity - foals lie down so often, roll all that sort of thing - most people I know who have horses, and live closely with them, use the 'dead foal' routine.

you should spend some time with them - they are amazing animals - not arseholes like humans ;)

[fassifernit]

@tempo465 by your spelling I would say you are at least 5years old - it's nice mummy lets you play with the *puter

[fassifernit]

@pbrskater26 I am amazed that you picked up on the altruistic behaviour, that was the first thing that really alerted me to a problem, You see, the chestnut who is trying to get her up is her brother - they were both born on the place and are very close, Yes, as the vet was able to come very quickly, the antivenin worked!

[pbrskater26]

Wow, you can see the alturistic behaviour! So, dose antiveniom work on horses too? Brown snakes have a nerotoxic veniom

[fassifernit]

@sonnifer one of those cause and effect things - when you first make that assessment of 'what could cause this' snakebite was the most obvious choice - either that or twisted bowl. In any case job for a vet. I suppose the thing a lot of people don't get is that what they get up to in the first 4 minutes is relatively normal for every foal I've known... I once watched a foal, 'get up, lie down, get up, lie down, then she trotted off with mum.. swear she was practicing ;)

Have a great day