We rear kid goats on milk replacer (as well as a few bull calves)
We always get a dietary scour on milk powder- and we're very clean!
Anyone any experience with pro/pre-biotics?
We played with milk kefir last year and may do so again this year.
Also anyone any experience with salicylic acid, or homeopathic techniques to reduce stress at weaning?
Thank you all!
we use Novilam (we have in the past used volac). Novilam is a 25 kg bag vs volacs 20kg bag- for slightly cheaper- and inthibknis Dutch, so is designed for goat rearing too.
its not he same problem as we had with volac- a simple dietary scour, they drink through it and thrive. Just very conscious that they’d be thriving even better if they dried up.
Theyre bottle fed colostrum, put on a milk replacer at their home farm (usually) and then I collect them weekly.
there’s potentially a milk change and the stress in that journey. if they’ve been on milk at the home farm theyll get going on our milk machine within 24hrs, maybe longer if they’ve been left on their mothers.
their too young for cocci are that age, and had the vets to test. So fairly adamant it’s dietary.
I tried the kefir as the milk machine has a function to suck in a liquid administer solution alongside the milk. To be honest I tried it later in the scour rather than straight away, and wasnt ready this year to try feeding it straight away.
ill get the Kefir grains going again, and maybe try that humate as a remedial in this batch!
thanks so much!
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