We call her "Mama Horse" rather than "526". She's a very skittish mare who hasn't been handled much, but she is very sweet and is coming around day by day.

At first we thought - how sad she must be!  But you know, horses naturally live in herds with no human contact, depending only on each other for affection and companionship.  That is the way they live at Equitransfer.  And they are being well cared for, we can tell by the wonderful physical shape she is in. She arrived here very clean with a healthy shiny coat, her hooves have been well-kept, her tail is trimmed so that it doesn't get in the way during delivery, her mane trimmed up nicely, and her eyes are nice and bright.  The only part that is stressful for her is traveling to different places.  But in a day, the traveling is over and she gets to settle in.  And I can't imagine any family who has her not taking care of her - she's carrying their long-awaited baby horse!  So its probably just the traveling (once every 2 years I bet given the length of gestation and weaning) and the vet exams during that time.  Better than the slaughter house, for sure. We'll give her lots of love while she's here!

UPDATE: We've been using Parelli Natural Horsemanship methods with "Mama Horse" and she has shown so much improvement. We can now touch her almost anywhere, put a halter on her, and she will trailer load for us. She's no longer scared and even comes up to meet people when we have visitors. She's a great horse and we're glad that she came here so we could give her a little help. Hopefully her stay here will make her future interactions with humans less stressful.