Meadow Brook Stables

05/08/2025

Easy’s Fan Mail 🥰 Thanks again Paula!

05/08/2025

Day 47:

Easy got Fan Mail today! Paula was so kind to send her this Pink Bubblegum Jolly Ball! She was instantly interested in it and wanted to lick and chew it. I was just thinking she needed a stall toy! She was very happy with her gift. Thank-you Paula!

We had a lot of first today.

We fit her for her first Blondie Cinches halter donated by OakLee Equines.

She ate she first handful of grass.

And she meet an our Ram Burns!

She is also up to 176lbs! This girl likes to eat.

05/08/2025

“Motherhood” suits Nanny Rio - she is looking fantastic. This lady is 22 years young and our oldest resident at Meadow Brook Stables. She recently adopted our Dummy Foal, Easy, and has been an absolute saint. She has been with us for 13 years and has given us several amazing foals and has taught many students how to ride. We used to call her Mumma Rio when she was still having foals, then she changed to Nanny Rio when she started being our designated babysitter for foals at weaning.
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05/07/2025

Ora and Orion got out into the indoor for some zoomies today!

05/07/2025

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05/07/2025

Day 46:

Easy got to experience fly spray today and was actually PERFECT for it. She stood perfectly while I sprayed her all over and wasn’t bothered by the feeling or sound of bottle.

She is very bothered by black flies (me too girl, me too) so we used a natural - baby safe spray by Ultrashield. It is a Green Natural Fly Repellent and is also an eco-safe solution that's safe for your horse, family, and environment. It's backed by the power of geraniol and six fly-fighting natural oils that can be used to repel and control flies, mosquitos, ticks, and gnats on horses, ponies, foals, and dogs. We use it every year on our mares and foals.

It unfortunately isn’t as effective as the insecticide Ultrashield and needs to be reapplied more often but does help.

Anyone have a favourite foal safe fly spray?

We are looking at ordering her a Fly Sheet as well as a Custom Cooling Blanket. This kid is going to have all the accessories 😅



Absorbine

05/06/2025

Easy - Life has been anything but Easy.

She was born with Neonatal Maladjustment Syndrome, also known as "dummy foal syndrome". It is a condition in newborn foals where they fail to thrive and exhibit neurological abnormalities.

Easy showed weakness, uncoordinated movements, blindness, seizures and difficulty sucking, alongside behaviors like wandering aimlessly and being unresponsive to her mother. She then had further complications due to aspiration pneumonia (aspirating amniotic fluid at birth and due to having difficulty swallowing, leading to milk or other fluids being inhaled into the lungs) and patent urachus (a condition where the urachus, the duct connecting the bladder to the umbilical cord during fetal development, reopened due to straining to pass manure - this leads to urine leaking from the umbilical stump).

She had to have both on Farm and In Hospital Intensive Care but is well on her way to recovery. 🩷

05/06/2025

05/06/2025

Day 45:

Easy is growing like a bad w**d. She is up to 168lbs already! Many of our foals will double their weight the first month. Easy did not due to being sick. When born on March 22nd she was around 90lbs, by the time she got to AVC on April 4th she was only 96lbs (she should have been around 130 lbs). April 19th after she came back from AVC she was up to 115lbs and she has been steadily gaining ever since.

I’m always paranoid if she is getting enough to eat and to drink - that’s normally her mother’s responsibility not mine! I’m really good at feeding mares so they can feed their foals - guess I don’t do too bad of a job of feeding just the foal too!

She got to “paint” today and seemed to enjoy the activity. Maybe if she gets good at it she can sell some prints 🤪. Don’t worry it’s non toxic paints and they are under a plastic ziplock bag so she has no actual contact with the paint.

05/05/2025

Pedro is feeling much better and would like to know when he can run free. Soon little buddy. Soon.

05/05/2025

Not For Sale:
Look at this adorable crochet horse that Joyce N Grinstead made! She decided to name her Spunk-Easy for short Spunk-E.

She had a lovely message for us:
It’s been fun getting know all the horses and other animals. Easy has wrapped her little hooves around my ❤️ and has been such an inspiration. Thanks for all you do Kaila, mods, all the who comment on YouTube/FB and everyone at MBS.

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