my new baby has the scours!!!

[goatwishingstar]

i brought home a saanen buckling on saturday. ive been giving him milk, and he drinks it, but his stools are very loose and yellow. i need some homeremedies for him. he is also eating solids, please help!!

[pookshollow]

How old is he? How much milk is he getting - warm or cold? What kind of milk - and what was he getting before you brought him home? Is the bottle cleaned each time?

Babies on milk do have slightly runny yellow poo - that's normal.

[moopups]

Get some acidophlus milk into the formula, it returns the beneficial bacteria.

[moonspinner]

Need to know what age, what kind of milk, how much and it is different than what he was getting with his previous owner?

[goatwishingstar]

he must be about 2 weeks old. im feeding him milk from our goats, its warm, and ive been filling a 16 oz. water bottle half to 3/4 way with milk. i mixed in an egg and a smidgen of pepto bismol with his milk tonight and he drank it all down very willingly. i think it might just have to do with the new adjustments hes been put through, and im getting the notion that the people he came from were giving him milk replacer, and my goat milk might be a tad rich for him. but he wants to eat hay and grain and he still seems very lively. but if you have any suggestions, by all means, please keep them coming!!

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

Raw eggs can give kids samonella, it's also nothing normal to feed to a goat, so please rethink advice like that. It's likely as simple as a change in his milk. Just keep giving him what you are...upping it slowly to the whole 16 ounces bottle full 3 times a day. You can offer him water in a bucket, make sure it is a small bucket that can eaisly tip over, if he will eat hay and grain fine, but his milk is soo important for his growth right now. Don't even think about weaning him for 3 or 4 months, the more milk, then weaned to alfalfa for more calcium the better. For bucks using meat goat pellets that contain alfalfa meal, ammonium chloride for stones, and decoquinate for cocci are soo convienent.

He needs to be disbudded right now, well really last week. And you also need to start reading the forum on worming and cocci prevention....using prevention will keep you from every having to deal with disease. Vicki

[goatwishingstar]

thankyou, i read this after i put an egg in his milk, but i think he'll be fine with that as long as i discontinue the egg for future feedings.