[AlpacaTalk] Low milk production
Hi all,
We had a cria born on Thursday about noon who just isn't thriving.
This was a first cria for the dam and took a little while to drop her
milk (a few hours) - not surprising. She did appear to have colostrum
and adequate milk when it arrived. However, the cria is not gaining
weight. She was not a premie but on the smaller side - 13.2# and as
of last night (day 4) is up to 13.8# - no gain at all during this
day. She's not active like she should be and spends much more time
than she should under mom. The dam's milk now seems to be lessening
and very warm so I'm wondering if it's mastitus .. ?
We do give our crias Ecolizer+C and have not had problems with
diarrhea since we started using it a few years back. However, this
little girl seems constipated and when she does evacuate her bowel,
it's very liquidy and orange. I have not seen this before - any
thoughts on this? We started supplementing her yesterday with whole
milk and yogurt but she is not a willing subject! Others I've had to
supplement were a bit more willing to take it (on the hungry side) so
I'm a bit puzzled with this one.
I will be calling the vet as soon as their office opens this AM and
am going to track down some Domperidone.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. My vet is wonderful
and has been working with our farm for 7 years but I would not
consider him a "camelid specialist" by any means and generally do our
best to have suggestions ready when problems arise. The alpaca groups
have been a huge help!
Thanks, Liz Clark, Turkey Creek Alpacs, northern Indiana
turkeycreek@
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