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Monday, July 27, 2009

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Failure of Passive Transfer,

 


I am curious if any alpaca breeders are routinely collecting colostrum and freezing it? This is something we routinely did while breeding horses. You just never knew with this maidens how good the colostrum was. So we always collected from the proven dams/milkers and froze it. When a new baby was born we would defrost and dose all babies born to maiden dams. We never lost a single foal and never had to do plasma.

We are thinking of freezing our goats colostrum. We have Nigerian does and they are really good milkers.

Last year, our first year, we lost our first cria from passive transfer failure.

This year we had a maiden with virtually no milk and it was nearly impossible to find colostrum. She ended up getting goat from TSC. Sadly all our does were dry and we could not help her out. I was wondering then....had I only frozen the year before!



---- Original Message ----
From: Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@westwindalpacas.com>
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 1:42 am
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Coccidiia

 
Yup, Rebecca, I had the same situation with my cria. She had to be rushed to OSU the day after she was born. Failure of Passive TRansfer, although I had seen her nurse a LOT the day she was born, just the day before. She stayed for 2 weeks at OSU, had 2 transfusions, many tube feedings, many blood tests, and Naxcel for 2 or 3 weeks. She is strong and healthy today, and would not have made it without the antibiotics, I'm pretty sure.

Although I prefer to be holisitc and "natural" as much as possible, I will not with-hold traditional meds if indicated. It's just not worth the risk of losing a life.

However, vaccines on newborns are not advised, and the earliest they should be dine is 3 months.

Heather


On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Rebecca Wells wrote:

Naxcel is an antibiotic, not a parasite treatment. And if it was 
harmful to crias, then my first cria would have died. No, it saved 
his life because he was born with a septic infection and had to 
receive a plasma transfer and be treated with antibiotics - Naxcel.

Vaccines are a different question.

Rebecca Wells
Alpacadero Alpacas
Seattle, WA

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