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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 536960" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>Hi poky and welcome to the boards. </p><p></p><p>Firstly - your goat milk shouldnt be the problem unless your goat has mastitis or some other nasty thing (mastitic milk really shouldnt be used to hand rear animals, even though it is a common practice and I know many people who have done it for years and successfully). Goat milk is widely used to rear wildlife, domestic animals and it is even used for some infants who cant tolerate cows milk. So that shouldnt be your problem.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm not 100% sure about this and maybe Alice or Milkmaid can help me out, but I think scours in the first 3 days is E.coli. It can be environmental, ie. caused by poor hygiene, lots of mud and manure where the calves are housed, and poor cleaning of bottles and teats etc. But since you kept them in different areas that might rule that out. So perhaps it is an infectious E.coli scour, either on your farm or in your district, or on the farm and/or district the calves came from (did they come from the same farm?). It also does sound like they havent had sufficient colostrum. As I said though, I'm not 100% sure on this, so all of this might be completely wrong.</p><p></p><p>I'm also not sure, but I think there is an E.coli calf scour vaccine? Perhaps you may want to look into using this. </p><p></p><p>Also, get a vet out pronto to assess the situation. </p><p></p><p>Good luck, hope you dont lose anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 536960, member: 3195"] Hi poky and welcome to the boards. Firstly - your goat milk shouldnt be the problem unless your goat has mastitis or some other nasty thing (mastitic milk really shouldnt be used to hand rear animals, even though it is a common practice and I know many people who have done it for years and successfully). Goat milk is widely used to rear wildlife, domestic animals and it is even used for some infants who cant tolerate cows milk. So that shouldnt be your problem. Now, I'm not 100% sure about this and maybe Alice or Milkmaid can help me out, but I think scours in the first 3 days is E.coli. It can be environmental, ie. caused by poor hygiene, lots of mud and manure where the calves are housed, and poor cleaning of bottles and teats etc. But since you kept them in different areas that might rule that out. So perhaps it is an infectious E.coli scour, either on your farm or in your district, or on the farm and/or district the calves came from (did they come from the same farm?). It also does sound like they havent had sufficient colostrum. As I said though, I'm not 100% sure on this, so all of this might be completely wrong. I'm also not sure, but I think there is an E.coli calf scour vaccine? Perhaps you may want to look into using this. Also, get a vet out pronto to assess the situation. Good luck, hope you dont lose anymore. [/QUOTE]
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