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Volunteers with the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group are nursing a newborn horse back to the health, the smallest wild horse the group says it has ever encountered.<\/p>\n

Someone called the group\u2019s hotline Sunday after discovering the foal separated from the herd hours after birth in the Tonto National Forest, said SRWHMG president Simone Netherlands. Volunteers were unable to find the horse\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

At 33 pounds, the foal is roughly half the weight of a normal newborn horse, Netherlands said. Baby horses typically weigh about 60 pounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just literally got there right in time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Using plastic gates, a tray of medical equipment and blenders full of horse formula, Netherlands has turned her kitchen and living room into a horse nursery. She said it\u2019s simply too hot to keep the animal outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take his temperature all the time because he can’t regulate his own temperature,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The unnamed horse was apparently born prematurely, possibly to a malnourished mare, Netherlands said.<\/p>\n

Concern about malnourishment amid Arizona\u2019s drought prompted the group to\u00a0begin feeding the wild horses for the first time<\/a>. This year, volunteers began dropping off bales of hay every day, an effort the non-profit group says costs about $15,000 a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s simply just so dry, there’s no ground cover left,\u201d she said. \u201cIt’s really an emergency measure for us to feed the horses. It’s not something we’ve ever done before and that we ever thought we had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that the 3-day-old horse has gotten accustomed to feedings from people, the group says he will live out the rest of his life at the SRWHMG sanctuary in Prescott once healthy.<\/p>\n

The group is\u00a0seeking donations<\/a>\u00a0for the horse\u2019s care. Sponsors will have an opportunity to name the horse.\u00a0More information is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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