Perfect Design

Hey guys. Take a look at this photo. Kinda gross, right. Hint: It's not a sea creature, not an alien creature. It belongs to one of our most beloved creatures, especially to me. In my opinion it is just one of the examples of proof that God loves all animals, and that man and beasts are beautifully designed.

https://honesttopaws.com/newborn-foals-hooves/

These are the feet of a newborn foal. This is eponychium, the soft capsule that protects a mare's uterus and birth canal from the sharp edges of the foal’s hooves during pregnancy and birth. The term also refers to the thicker skin around the fingernail and toenail in human anatomy. They are also referred to as “golden slippers” or “fairy fingers."

Without this soft tissue, the foal's sharp hooves would damage the mare's uterus and do damage going through the birth canal. 

Lyn Scruggs with Scruggs Quarter Horses agrees. "The ones we see are not this extreme. We call them feathers. We normally don't notice them after the first few hours. I imagine once they (babies) stand they start to disappear. That hoof hardens pretty quickly. And those front feet//legs are pushing out so hard during labor it's good there is softness there on the bottom of those feet"

These look almost like a strange variety of drooping lilies.

We raised many colts on our farm during the 1960-79 period.  But daddy did it the old fashioned way—usually leaving the mare in a pasture by herself and let nature take its course—and finding a new baby early in the morning. Such a sweet surprise. So I never saw this miracle since the feathers has disappeared by the time I saw the baby.

Another instinctive miracle—Have you ever wondered why our babies take a year or so to walk, while foals and calves and other animals walk right after birth? Being animals of prey, horses know that predators are attracted to the smell of the placenta and blood and will track to the site of the birth. That's why the mother and foal need to be able to travel and get away from that site as soon as possible. (https://www.horsenation.com/2016/03/21/what-the-muck-is-that-eponychium)

I know all my readers are not horse people. But I can't deny this perfect design is by the hand of God.

Job 12:7-10
7 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this: 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.