Pregnant Horse Is Ready To Give Birth Then Her Owners Are Shocked To See An Impossible Miracle

A mother horse named Emma defied all the odds and delivered a borderline impossible miracle this past week.

Emma has given birth to twins in a rare occurrence.

After a difficult birth, both foals were born without complications.

Named Will and Grace, they are both said to be in good health.

According to the UC Davis Center for Equine Health:

"A number of factors can affect a mare’s ability to conceive, maintain a healthy pregnancy and produce a healthy foal, including proper nutrition, preventive medicine, a routine program of parasite control and exercise."

Said Nicola Jarvis, a senior veterinary surgeon at a UK horse sanctuary:

"Although mares quite often conceive twins, it is rare that both embryos survive.

If you have two foals, they are vying for space and the chances of them coming out alive and well are slim."

This basically means that usually, the foals fight inside the womb for the growing space, and one usually wins the fight.

Healthy twins are a rarity among horses, as one embryo tends to take over during pregnancy and the other is aborted or dies early.

Usually, vets will perform an abortion if they find twin mares or the horse will even undergo an abortion during the later stages of pregnancy.

To put things more into perspective, the survival rate of twin horses is a very low 10,000 to 1.

Their birth came as a complete surprise to their owner as there was no indication that their mother was carrying twins.