Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Live Twins!!! Born 40 hours apart!!!
4/10 lb is great if you ask me! I'm grateful if mine gain at least 1/4
lb per day.... :)
I was going to suggest the amniotic fluid or placenta trick. I'm glad
it's working!
Keeping my fingers crossed for you and the babies!
Heather
On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:08 PM, jenq11 wrote:
> Thanks Everyone for your replies!
>
> I fed him indoors yesterday afternoon and last night and he gained
> 4/10 lb... not bad! He was so much stronger this morning that I
> brought him back to the farm and spent the WHOLE day trying to
> convince him that I am not his mom and that nursing is better than a
> bottle. We put him in an area with his dam and 2 potential fosters.
> I fed him every 1 1/2 - 2 hours by bottle but then left after feeding
> so as not to confuse him. We put amniotic fluid on both babies AND
> put goats milk (what we are feeding the little guy) on the face of
> the other baby AND cut fiber off each boy and attached it to the bum
> of the other baby with burrs (worked great!). Also rubbed poop from
> baby #2 on Baby #1. Gave dam homeopathics, flower remedies AND herbs
> to ease stress and reintro. Yeaterday she bit him and chased him
> off. Today, at LEAST....she was kissing him and smelling his bum and
> belly. Nothing further but she doesn't seem to mind if he hangs out
> nearby. The other mom's are happy to sniff him and are kind but
> nothing more. He is sleeping in a limited, safe area in the barn
> with this group tonight (good weather).
>
> Tomorrow, we are hoping to teach him where alpaca milk comes from on
> one of the dams who will not kick him if we restrain her to let him
> nurse. He DID manage to look up under one of the other dams tonight
> just before I left. Maybe he will get the idea is left to his own
> devices...
>
> Anyways - thanks for all the advice and support. I'll let you all
> know how he does. He's a strong little guy!
>
> It will be really interesting to see the DNA results for sure!
>
> JenQ
> Strafford, NH
>
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