RE: [AlpacaTalk] 6.8 lb cria 4 days past due Help!
You will get lots of advice on this issue. At 6.8 pounds, I think you have
an uphill battle and I sincerely hope that you and the cria win.
I don't see how such a small cria can possibly nurse from its mother. So,
you are doing the right thing just keeping it warm. Your vet might suggest
that you give the female some oxytocin so she will "drop" her milk. I would
keep trying to milk her. But, the priority (in my view) would be to keep
the cria warm and your heating pad is an excellent way. We kept a cria in
our bed with the electric blanket on for two days.
If you have a shearing table, you might try something. We secured the
female to the shearing table and set the cria down where it could suckle.
We did this six times a day for about five days. In the mean time, we gave
the cria thawed cow's colostrum.
Forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know, but DO NOT thaw
the colostrum in the microwave. We put frozen cubes of colostrum in a small
steel bowl and place that bowl in boiling water. If you thaw it in the
microwave, you will kill all of the antibodies.
I would keep the cria on the same colostrum for at least a week and then
start phasing in normal, off the shelf, homogenised milk. I can give you
Steve Hull's milk substitute recipe, if you don't have one.
Good luck,
Chuck Rademacher
Kaipara Pines Alpaca Stud
2247 South Head Road, RD 1
Helensville, New Zealand 0874
Phone: 09-420-2133 Mobile: 027-204-9406
www.alpacafarm.
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From: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
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Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2008 8:22 a.m.
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] 6.8 lb cria 4 days past due Help!
Hi, everyone. I have a 6.8 lb. beautiful fawn boy that was born this
morning. Mom has very, very little milk. I milked her and fed it to the
cria but it was only 6/10ths of an ounce. A friend gave me frozen cow
colostrum. He took about 1 oz. of that only. I have him on a heating
pad on my bed. can anyone give me anymore help, info?
Thank you,
Wendy Cruz
Humming B alpacas
Lebanon, TN
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