FOX VALLEY & PINKIES: Discussion Thread

[island rehabber]

Thank-you for posting this Maura! I have been watching and wondering if there was an issue.

It's happened too many times now for it to be a coincidence, or bad water, or rehabber error. SOMETHING is wrong....

[stepnstone]

I do know there is a difference between wild animals and human animal
so please don't beat me up over this, just throwing it out there...

I'm wondering if what's happening with the pinkies is on the same lines as what happens with a
"premature" infant in that the immature lining of the intestines makes it hard for them to digest fat?
Many premature (human) babies have to start out on specialized formulas due to this issue.
My younger brother and son both were put on a goat's milk formula until their digestive systems matured
due to this very issue.

[Skul]

Experienced the same thing with Moses.
We had to keep him on goat's milk for some time, then slowly transition to FV.
He has no issue with FV at this time. (7 weeks or so)

[Anne]

OMG, I thought that it was just me and/or the pinkies. I stabilized three pinkies of about 12 grams each. I past one on to Lady Squirrelly that was doing great at first, then found dead. One I kept here for 4 days died, the third I past on to another one of my volunteers, it was dead in 3 days. All of us are experienced not anyone's first rodeo. All the pinkies I got this year past away in just a few days!

[Charley Chuckles]

OMG what about LG I give her it every morning

[CritterMom]

OMG what about LG I give her it every morning

She isn't a pinkie! It is just the wee neonates that seem to be having issues with straight FV.

[Nancy in New York]

Last year when I got Eve, I also got two of her sisters,
who died on day 4 and 5 of them being here.
No explanation, just died a day apart.
They too were neonates.

I recently got 4 neonate reds. One passed last night.
None of the milk lines on any of them would go down.
I started them off on FV with a ratio of 1 FV to 3 parts hot water,
and I let mine sit, I make it up in advance.
I have always added Ultra Boost
and did so this time too.
They were all keeping their milk lines after hours of being fed.

Sunday night I started them all on the Goat Milk formula, with no transition.
The thing that strikes me odd, is that with the GM formula, I hardly see any milk line
at all, and definitely when I go to feed 2 hours later, it is totally gone.

Here is little Robbie about an hour before he passed.
He was last fed about 7 hours prior.
I was hydrating him, but did not feel comfortable giving him more formula
with such a huge milk line still visible.
The milk line is going to his side and onto his back area too.

[Charley Chuckles]

She isn't a pinkie! It is just the wee neonates that seem to be having issues with straight FV.