Meadow Brook Stables

04/03/2025

Easy is starting to figure out the cooler. She does get frustrated with it as this ni**le is hard to get milk of than her regular bottle. But I did get her to nurse off it today a few times. And have it in the stall to hopefully encourage her to seek it out on her own.

Looking for suggestions on what I can put in the cooler to keep the milk warmer longer. I put some pop bottles in tonight with some hot water in them (thinking I might need to buy nearly boiling water in them) but looking for other ideas as well.

I also gave her some “road apple sauce” - yup I fed her some manure mixed with apple sauce. Foals normally eat manure, a behavior called coprophagy, to populate their digestive systems with beneficial bacteria, essential for transitioning to solid food and efficient fiber digestion. Easy has missed that step so is having a difficult time digesting the hay she is eating. I am hoping this helps her out a little bit. She actually didn’t seem to mind it!

She also had a recheck with the vet today, her heart rate is good but her lungs aren’t the best. We pulled blood to run a CBC and a SAA to see where we are at with this. Results should be in tomorrow am.

04/02/2025

Not sure if you’ve heard about Easy our “Dummy Foal” that was born on the farm.

Easy was born March 22nd at 2:57am, and her start in life has been anything but easy. Initially, she was thought to have aspirated on fluids during birth, but it soon became apparent that there was something else going on.

As she failed to nurse, the vet was called and she was tube fed her mother’s colostrum. Around 6:30am the same day, she had a serious seizure. The vet was called back and Neonatal Maladjustment Syndrome was suspected.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-easys-recovery-from-neonatal-maladjustment-syndrome

She could really use your help. A like, comment, share, or donation if you’re able to. 🤍🩷

Hi, we are Malin and Ceilidh and we want to start this fundra… Malin Tegelberg needs your support for Help Easy’s recovery from neonatal maladjustment syndrome!

04/02/2025

We are 11 Days Old and we are 5 days without any seizure activity!

Easy is drinking like a champ, seems more bright and alert overall. She did need a bit of help passing some more manure today - as the hay she is eating isn’t fully digested so tomorrow I get to feed her a manure applesauce slurry 😅

She is still slow in her movement and her body is still quite tight (likely in response to the previous seizures). She has another appointment with our osteopath on Thursday.

If anyone has any other suggestions on what could help with the overall body stiffness that would be great!

Or any other suggestions of anything we could add to our treatment plan.

04/02/2025

Welcome to the world little one! Jazz foaled at a VERY respectful time at 8:48pm. A beautiful Dunskin (we think) Tobiano Filly. All timelines passed and she is running laps around the stall already! Good stars to Tripp with his first 5 foals - 1 more to go!

04/02/2025

04/01/2025

Thanks to friends Angela and Jeff as well as my handy husband, Andrew, we are one step closer to having a “free choice” milk bar for Easy. This will hopefully get her drinking lower (as she insists on drinking like she is a giraffe no matter what we have done and increases her risk of aspiration), and allowing her to drink anytime she is hungry. We’ve been feeding her ever 2 hours during the day and 3 hours overnight, so we might actually be able to sleep through the night.

04/01/2025

Happy Birthday to these three!

Martini (7)
Steele (5)
Ari (2)

03/31/2025

We are 4 days without any seizure activity! This is the longest amount of time Easy has gone without a Seizure since being born 10 days ago.

I would say Easy had another good day today. She continues to get her twice a day Doses of Banamine (to control inflammation), Sulcralfate (to keep her tummy happy), Excenel (to fight off any infection), Levetiracetam (to control seizures) and we’ve started her on a daily oral dose of Vitamin E (a vital antioxidant that supports the her immune system, nerves, and muscle function).

She has been drinking like a champ (still from the bottle - we are going to try to get the Cooler set up tomorrow if the teat we have works with it ). Did need a little bit of help today to pass a lot of manure (she was a bit backed up and had a lot coming down the pipeline).

She again spent most of her day napping, drinking or eating hay. The napping will be good to give her brain time to recover and inflammation to go down.

03/31/2025

Happy 2nd Birthday to Highland today!

03/31/2025

We welcomed this sweet girl into the world today. A Spooks Big Bang Dark Bay Filly. She is so soft and is going to be a looker. She will be available.

03/31/2025

Today in Chica’s “Mothering Class” was teaching her child the importance of Mud Napping. Despite having a nice clean and dry stall and having paddock that was 90% dry …. She instead taught her kid to nap in a mud puddle 🤦🏼‍♀️

03/31/2025

He had such a high response to the suggestion of “Reacher” for Kee’s c**t so we are going to go with that! He is a big burly guy with a heart of gold.

03/31/2025

Chic was making mud angels today.

03/30/2025

Celine says HI! She upgraded to a bigger sweater today and is a whopping 4.62lbs (finally the normal birth weight of a Nigerian Goat).

Hidden Forest Family Farm

03/30/2025

In typical Chica fashion after being “released back into the wild” a good roll and some happy hops!