"rescue baby" maybe not

Cheribelle · #1 02/10/11, 02:10 AM

A friend called me tonight. They had a new baby they just couldn't deal with for time restraints, cold, etc. So I picked it up, what's one more, right?
She said it was born yesterday, must have had some colostrum because it is still alive, and they sent me a 1/2 gallon milked from the doe.
He really had never been properly cleaned off, but I did get him warm. She said they gave it CD&T orally, and a few cc's of milk were all they could get down him.
I cave him B complex, orally, and got him warm, BUT
This baby has the worst case of scours I have ever seen. Red-brown, NASTY, and lots of it.
I tried to tube him but for some reason I'm not getting it with this one.
I'm afraid this is a losing battle/
No interest in the bottle.

Backfourty,MI. · #2 02/10/11, 07:54 AM

I have never heard of giving a newborn CD & T orally or in a shot before, Wonder why they do that?

Also sometimes it takes them a little while to figure out the bottle, don't give up yet. Could be the diarrhea is caused from something they gave to mom that's going through her milk.
When you run out of goats milk I wouldn't use replacer, I'd use whole cows milk if you don't have goats milk from some of your own goats.

pygmybabies · #3 02/10/11, 08:09 AM

last year I got a two week old that would not eat at all, I just kept giving him milk through a syringe like 6cc at a time and then some electrolytes, it was 2 weeks before he took a bottle, I thought I was going to lose him, but I just didnt give up, he really likes the electrolytes and that is what finally got him to suck on the syringe, then we slowly transitioned 2 days after that to a bottle, and now he is the buck that made the big babies for muffin, so hopefully he will be ok, keep trying.

Pony · #4 02/10/11, 10:30 AM

Those scours have me wondering if there's not something mechanical going on... Is it possible that he's one of those who is just ADR (Ain't Doin' Right)?

Cheribelle · #5 02/10/11, 10:35 AM

Yeah, I lost him. I have never seen such a nasty case of the scours. Also his belly never went flat, for a baby with nothing to eat, I think there were more problems there. Poor baby.

julieq · #6 02/10/11, 10:58 AM

So sorry about that. Scours like that would worry me also.

pygmybabies · #7 02/10/11, 01:20 PM

sorry

Helena · #8 02/10/11, 01:21 PM

could have been a blockage in his intestines. So sorry..

Creamers · #9 02/10/11, 02:09 PM

Poor fellow - sounds like something else was going on.