Re: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Problem with Newborn Cria
Sheri - what is GSE?
Karen Mander-Burnworth
Mill Creek Farm Alpacas
Sandy Lake, PA
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> From: Sheri Hewitt <sherih@woodlandmead
> Date: 2008/09/03 Wed PM 09:44:28 EDT
> To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
> Subject: 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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