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Post by lollypop1478 on Feb 13, 2013 20:03:29 GMT
My friend has a filly foal born yesterday, but she is only feeding from one side of the mares udder, so the other side is becoming huge and hard, she has managed to strip some milk off so both sides are soft to see if that works, has anyone any ideas if it doesn't?
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Post by deucoch on Feb 13, 2013 21:11:29 GMT
Trouble with stripping this early on, is that colostrum is lost, unless you are giving it to the foal? Try and latch the foal to your finger (bit of honey on your finger helps) then try and transfer the latch to the teat (put a bit of honey on there also) I've done this succesfully with very thick (  often colts) foals who can't seem to get the hang of what they should do initially. The side that she isn't using, does she try it at all? Just wondering if the mare had say, mastitis on that side, the foal is trying it, tastes funny and goes back to the other!? |
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Post by lollypop1478 on Feb 14, 2013 16:54:33 GMT
All sorted now thanks, don't think she realised there was 2!! Now she has the hang of it:-))
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Post by Louise Dixon on Feb 14, 2013 20:38:58 GMT
That is great news.
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often colts) 
