Re: [AlpacaTalk] Problem with Newborn Cria
Go to the store and get some GSE. Put 3 oz. of milk in a bottle and 5
drops of GSE and feed it. Make sure she takes all of it. You might
also give a small dose of oral vitamins. If you need to continue
bottle feeding you can try our mix. It works very well.
We lost a dam and are bottle feeding a little female and she is
very healthy. The mix we use to feed for a quart is 4 oz. vanilla
yogurt, 4 oz whipping cream, and 24 oz organic milk. We feed this
every 3 hrs. during the day. We don't do this all night. Make sure
mom stays around and milk her when you can. The cria really should
start nursing at some point.
Best of luck,
Sheri Hewitt
Woodland Meadows, LLC
Creswell, OR
At 05:23 PM 9/3/2008, you wrote:
>Hi guys...
>
>As I've said a million times, I'm fairly new to this industry. Don't
>have much to offer as far as advice here, but I do have a few
>questions. I hope you guys don't mind. It's nice to know that there
>is a place newbies like myself can turn to for help...
>
>We had a cria born last night around 6:00 p.m. She came out very
>small, she's not thin,she's very small, and she appears to be very
>weak. She couldn't stand at all for the first 6 hours of her life,
>which as I understand it, can be fairly common. She sort of lied on
>her side like she was dead. She was responsive, but just lied
>there. She couldn't get up, so we had to feed her colostrum <sp?>
>through a syringe at first, then through a bottle, so she knows how
>to suck. We gave her colostrum suppliment also, and a colostrum
>gel. No one in this area does igG testing, I called every large
>animal vet in the area, and no one here does it, so I have no idea
>what her levels are like. Her behavior over the last 24 hours hasn't
>changed much. She still spends alot of time on her side, she is
>eating, still through a bottle. We cannot get her to nurse at all
>off mom. She's not interested in feeding from mom at all. She'll
>get up and stand, but only when encouraged by people to do so. She
>wasn't "premature", she was born a day before her due date. She is
>so different from our last cria. Our last cria was up and moving
>around within an hour. This just doesn't seem to be normal behavior
>from a cria, but I'm not really sure what to do with her. Like I
>said, she just sort of lays lifeless, and doesn't do much. When she
>does get up, she only wanders a little bit, and goes right back
>down. She weighs 15 lbs. Any help guys? Anyone had this before?
>
>
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