Equine Amniotic Allograft for Veterinary Regenerative Treatment: Our "Mini" Accident

This last weekend on the ranch was perhaps the most exciting one yet, but for all the wrong reasons. Don't worry I'll get into that later on in the post. Our duties for the day were pretty simple: Clean out the stalls and bathe all the horses. The first part was pretty simple. When we arrived at the ranch, all the horses were already put out to pasture. All we had to do was clean out all their droppings from the stall and put down new floor shavings. After that, we had to go bring them in for their baths. This is where things got difficult. The two minis were in a pasture adjacent to the regular sized horse, and we decided to go wash the minis first. Since they're so small we usually wash both of them at the same time. So all of us went to go bring in the two of them. However, there was one problem, no one shut the gate. One of the first rules Mr. Ames taught us was always shut the gate behind you when you enter the pasture. We all forgot this one simple rule, thinking "The person behind us will shut the gate." Well, everyone thought that and no one ended up actually shutting the gate. When we went into the pastures the minis were already running around trying to avoid us. Then they saw that the gate was open and made a dash for it. Unfortunately, the main gate to the street wasn't closed either and the horses escaped onto the road. Mr. Ames wasn't on the ranch at the moment either so it was just up to the interns to get the horses back. VIjeeth and I tried running down the horses but realized even with their short legs and swollen stomachs they were still much faster than us. We were just hoping and praying that they didn't keep running out to the main road because there was no way any car would stop in time to not hit them. Eventually, they got distracted by some bigger horses and went to go "talk" with them. Seizing our opportunity Irene and Sarah (the other ranch hand) coaxed the minis back to the pasture with watermelon and disaster was avoided. Unfortunately for us, Mr. Ames did see us running down the street after the minis, however, he wasn't mad at all (thankfully). In the end, we were all just glad neither of the minis were hurt.

We received a surprise later on in the week that Treasure, one of the minis, gave birth. She wasn't showing any telltale signs of impending birth when we were on the ranch. e could only conclude that all her running loosened her up to give birth!