Hi all, hope someone has some ideas. This is about the third of triplets that had to come in to be a bottle baby when her mom wouldn't feed her. I fed her colostrum that I milked from her mom then gradually moved her from goat milk over to whole milk because she was sold as a bottle baby and no goat milk was going to be available. At just over a week she was shipped by plane to her new home. The day before she went I had the vet out for other stuff and got her to just check the baby. Her breathing was a bit fast, but her lungs sounded good, her temp was at 39.9, up just a smidge but she was in the house next to the radiator, so the vet gave her an anti biotic shot, just to maybe catch anything brought on by the stress of moving. She got to her new home after about 4 hours (2 hours sitting in the cargo office, 1 1/2 hours on the plane, transport from office to plane was in a car) After three days doing fine, eating, lots of energy etc. she got lethargic, and not interested in bottle and ia grinding teeth. Vet there has seen her and given her antibiotics and pain meds for pneumonia but she apparently is not getting better. I feel terrible for this little baby and her new owner, does any one have any ideas for further treatment? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
Bottle baby with a problem
- Thread starter cindyg
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They could try a shot of dextrose right in the gut. It's like a huge helping of energy. Sometimes works, sometimes don't. Might be the pick me up she needs in order to give them more time to figure out what is going wrong.
