Fluffybooru id: 5115
Tumblr link: Coalheart's (and other) Mod Blagh
Meet Patchy, she’s one of the shelter’s permanent members.
Was found in an illegal foal mill being used as a ‘milkbag’ to use the term the millers use themselves. Basically it’s the life a breeding mare can expect when her foals are not with nice color schemes or simply because after so much foaling they’re of no other use at the mill. A 'milkbag’ gets her legs and tail amputated and is fed a high proteine and sugar chow along with daily doses of cheap hormones just to keep them producing milk as long as it’s possible. Those mares are suspended on a harness to feed the countless litters of the breeding mares so they can breed again without wasting time raising foals.
It’s a miracle Patchy was still alive by the time we got her at the shelter but we did our best. Nothing could be done about the legs and she had consumed so much hormones she just can’t stop producing milk naturally so she has to be milked on a daily basis. This can be avoided when an abused foal or foals from a dead abused mare arrive at the shelter then she is happy to feed them because as she says “Patchy haf’ best miwkies!”