Warwick touches on one of the things he did with Chance as a newborn foal that helped him process the dousing of the umbilical cord and first shots.
Edited to add- It seems I didn’t explain well enough in the video why I let go when Chance struggled, so here’s the reason.
I got a hold of him so we could treat his umbilical cord and give him his first shots. When I first got a hold of him he struggled and I held onto him until he stopped struggling, then Robyn treated him. I could have let him go at that point, but when he struggled and couldn’t get away, that sent him into a small amount of freeze mode. I didn’t want to leave that in there so I kept my arms around him until he struggled again and immediately released him. That way that small amount of trauma was not trapped in his body.
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