Mr Owl recommended to me I assume malice versus incompetence. This would be a bit of both on his part. Which is understandable: he’s over-reacting partly due to the financial loss (which she can’t possibly understand) and partly from his mistake. He might as well have told her “don’t feed or hug your babies”
Bonus points if he WAS trying to be a “good” breeder.
Nurse mares are a toss up, especially when you buy them from cheap fluffy stores.
Sometimes you get an awesome one, and other times they suck.
Now he’s gotta pray that the foals mother, who is old enough that she’s only really got one or two more litters before she becomes barren, can produce something even close to what he lost.
Same difference for what I was talking about. Just as she had no empathy for the foal because killing it seemed obviously correct to her, she has no ability to comprehend that someone else may care about it despite the fact that she doesn’t.