Unexpected kidding - help please! With PICS!

[Lifesong Farm]

For now I would feed her every 2 hours. Just like a newborn child. In a couple days you can take it to 4 times a day.

Unfortunately I have heard a couple judges saying they don't worry about the disease. "Its not that bad"

 

[KellyHM]

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To them I say Bull$*!t.

 

[Lifesong Farm]

I agree. I am getting all 5 of mine tested next month for Johnes, CAE, and CL. My first kids should be in March so I will have tests back in plenty of time. I do have to say though, out of the three I would rather have CAE.

By the way she is a cutie.

If you don't feel up to pasteurizing I would go to tsc or rural king in the a.m. and get some powdered colostrum and maybe an electrolyte paste.

 

[KellyHM]

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I agree that if you HAVE to have one of those CAE would be preferable, since it's usually only passed in the colostrum/milk.

She just ate almost a cup of colostrum.

She's still looking for the bottle and running all over the bathroom trying to nurse from the cabinets.

She's not getting any more right now or I won't have enough to get her through a couple more feedings until I can get to the feed store in the morning.

I wouldn't mind pasteurizing the colostrum, but I don't really trust myself to be able to do it right.

I would either burn it or not get it hot enough.

I raised a bottle baby buck on milk replacer last spring and he did fine, so I'll just grab that in the morning. Or maybe the other doe will hurry things along and I won't have to worry about it.

 

[Attack Chicken]

she's a cutie! love the ears and face!

 

[redhen]

Yay! Good news shes eating!

Good job!

 

[clairabean]

What a cutie. Good luck.

 

[KellyHM]

Just a quick update! She made it through the night and is doing GREAT! She's sucking down whatever I offer her in the bottle and trying to "pump" my arm for more milk.

I'm out of the frozen colostrum I had and the feed stores around here only carry multi-species colostrum, not goat-specific colostrum. Is it best to give that a go or just go ahead and put her on the goat milk replacer?

 

[Sumatra503]

During the first 24 hours is when they absorb most of the anti bodies they recieve from the colostrum. It is always a good idea to give the colostrum a go from the feed store, but it not entirely necessary.

She should be just fine if you just go right to milk replacer.

 

[arabianequine]

I think that colostrum would be better then no colostrum. If your out in the freezer it would be good to have on hand anyways since you have other kids coming. I would still get the re-placer though because you don't need to give colostrum but for a few days. Then start feeding the re-placer if you still don't have milk from the other goat.