Inish’Or Farm – Vicki Dickson
“We lost our dear mare unexpectedly when Olive was 4 days old. On the way back from the hospital we grabbed some Grober milk replacer and fed it to the foal as soon as we got home. She drank immediately from a bucket.We then debated long and hard about introducing a nurse mare but decided to stick with the bucket and Grober. It’s not unlike raising our 3 kids.
Set the alarm clock, use a log book and stick to a schedule. We keep track of her weight versus the foals raised by their dams and she is gaining on par.
She was integrated into the herd along with her “granny” at 3 weeks of age, and other than running full tilt when she sees me with her green bucket, she is very much the normal foal!!”
My daughter lost her thoroughbred brood mare, Patsy six hours after Oliver was born, we got Grober milk replacer after a few days of goats milk (we will always have milk replacer on hand before another foaling season). Oliver came to live with me and Uncle Mickey, my old welsh cross pony. Oliver has done really well on the Grober’s. People can’t believe he is an orphan even though he has had a tough time, at 2 weeks old he had a lung infection and nearly died and when he was getting over that he developed a scrotal hernia that required surgery but in spite of all his aliments, at 2 months old he was over 12 hands and is healthy and happy and has a beautiful coat. Oliver is 2 1/2 months old now and being weaned off the milk replacer onto the milk pellets and he loves the pellets and he just keeps growing. Thank you for a wonderful product and I was so happy to get the milk pellets!
Debbie Bulmer