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[email protected]. ellwether- Universityof Pennsylvania Spring1985 .. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Foals neonatal unit for horses may ment, we also have to consider whether the She explained that a mare should not be shipped sound farfetched, but one animal can be an athlete two or three years during her last four weeks of pregnancy. ''This exists at New Bolton Center. hence or whether the illness will affect it per gives her time to develop antibodies to orga ln the Spring of 1984, the cli- manently. That often is very difficult. We have a nisms in her environment ... she said. "These mate controlled, separate little more leeway with fillies, colts though must antibodies are concentrated in the colostrum unit was opened and its be outstanding; for both there can be no linger during the last three weeks of the mare's term. lf , staff has been busy ing effects of neonatal illness. the environment is changed shortly before btrth, every since. The greatest number of patients admitted to the mare won't have time to develop the proper "Newborn foals are very delicate," said Dr.