nootka
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Hi there,
Long story short:
2 week old filly, born at what seemed normal gestation, but at a bout a week old, quit nursing, was found unresponsive, revived by a vet and determined to be possibly premature. Her Igg levels tested ok according to vet, but the filly's tongue is uncoordinated/lays out the side of her mouth.
She's been being fed from a bowl with goat's milk and nursing a little from her dam. When she nurses from her dam,the milk falls out of her mouth; when from the bowl, she gets all of it down.
My questions are these:
Is goat's milk a suitable long-term replacement for a young filly getting very little supplement from her natural source?
IS the tongue thing likely to resolve on its own (the filly's tendons also seem lax in keeping with the premature diagnosis, her coat may be a BIT on the fine side, too, and her hooves are shortish in my observation of full-term foals)?
I tried milking the mare into the bowl but the mare's patience is short for that although she allows the filly to have a few minutes' worth.
The filly is 2 wks old and has only gained one half pd (approx. a 20" filly) that I know of she's also quite thin and frail and relatively listless. This is not my filly, I live a few hours from here, just drove up to help her owner, who is in the hospital having just had a major surgery that was scheduled before the filly's arrival in response to an injury.
THANK YOU in advance....I used search and couldn't quickly find the answer to my question, hence this post as I only have an hour or so near the wireless connnection.
Liz
Long story short:
2 week old filly, born at what seemed normal gestation, but at a bout a week old, quit nursing, was found unresponsive, revived by a vet and determined to be possibly premature. Her Igg levels tested ok according to vet, but the filly's tongue is uncoordinated/lays out the side of her mouth.
She's been being fed from a bowl with goat's milk and nursing a little from her dam. When she nurses from her dam,the milk falls out of her mouth; when from the bowl, she gets all of it down.
My questions are these:
Is goat's milk a suitable long-term replacement for a young filly getting very little supplement from her natural source?
IS the tongue thing likely to resolve on its own (the filly's tendons also seem lax in keeping with the premature diagnosis, her coat may be a BIT on the fine side, too, and her hooves are shortish in my observation of full-term foals)?
I tried milking the mare into the bowl but the mare's patience is short for that although she allows the filly to have a few minutes' worth.
The filly is 2 wks old and has only gained one half pd (approx. a 20" filly) that I know of she's also quite thin and frail and relatively listless. This is not my filly, I live a few hours from here, just drove up to help her owner, who is in the hospital having just had a major surgery that was scheduled before the filly's arrival in response to an injury.
THANK YOU in advance....I used search and couldn't quickly find the answer to my question, hence this post as I only have an hour or so near the wireless connnection.
Liz