The poop post

I am not sure if you have noticed it, but bodily functions take up a lot of my time. Not my bodily functions, but those of my animals. This is Gypsy's filly, Baby Poops-A-Lot, aka Poop Butt Baby. She has been pooping non-stop for twelve days--she took one day off where we thought she was not pooping, but it was a trick. You can see in the top pic that her hiney is scalded, but it had been covered in poop. In fact, she had poop all down her legs, her tail was wet with it--she has been an all around mess.

A bout of a day or two of the runs is normal in babies around ten days old. Most shake it off, some don't. Babies this young can go downhill in a hurry, so you have to get it stopped. That requires four times a day doctoring. You can imagine how easy that is. To get that done, baby and mama have been stalled, which makes baby stir crazy. Gypsy has been an angel though. You have to keep pooper away from other babies, in case there is something in there that is catching, which you usually cannot know until it is too late. For example, the state lab gave me poop results last year, two days after the baby was dead from it--five days after being hand-delivered a sample.
Today is the second day that we believe baby to be poop free. So she got let out to run for a while tonight--we put her in a different pasture than normal as Gypsy thinks she is funny lately, and will not always come in when I tell her to. She is more catchable in this pasture. This is the first time she has been in a pasture with the older foals.
I promise she does not have crooked front legs--she was standing goofy.
I hope I am not jinxing it, but I think we may have this beat. And thank goodness, I am not up for another loss, and I really like this baby. I think she has a pretty pretty head, which is not always a given for Pepto-bred horses. And when it is not covered in poop, I lover her butt too.
I hope this means we will be graduating from pooping names to a big girl name.