Cow Milk Colostrum

Question: where can i get cows Colostrum milk?I have a receipe containing Colostrum milk.? It is cow's first milk after giving birth.it is used to make kharwas(an indian sweet)

Answer: If you have any dairies in your area, you may be able to get some there. I know our beef cows (which we don't milk anyway) need their colostrum to ensure that their calf gets a healthy start. I don't know if a dairy would feel the same way or not, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. (Though they might think you were a little strange LOL)

Question: cooking sheeps milk(colostrum)? sheeps milk(colostrum)? has anyone cooked sheeps/goats colostrum? so i had 1 litre of cows milk and mixed it with 1 1/2 litre of sheep's colostrum and boiled it,but it ended up looking like every lump on its own.I know it shouldnt look like this.i was stirring it,when i cooked it. got any ideas?

Answer: never have, but i take spray dried colostrum every day. Its a pill. I havent been sick since. I will put the link below if your interested

Question: What do they feed baby calves if we drink the cow's milk? I understand that in order for a cow to give milk, they must have a calf. I know they feed the colostrum to the baby calf as that is required for health - but what do they then feed the calf after that if they sell the cow's milk for human consumption? Do they just wean the calves earlier, or feed them a formula (based on what? Human formula is based on milk, no?) Thanks in advance.

Answer: "Dairy producers feed a variety of liquid feeds to young calves after the initial colostrum. These feeds include whole milk, surplus colostrum, transition milk, waste or discard milk, and milk replacer. Waste or discard milk cannot be sold for human consumption, because it comes from cows treated with antibiotics for mastitis or other illnesses. Discard milk losses range from 48 to 136 pounds of milk per cow per year (Blosser, 1979). To reduce some of the economic loss, 38 percent of dairy producers feed waste milk to calves (Heinrichs et al., 1994)." http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_d/d-208.pdf "Early Weaning Calves may be successfully weaned from milk or milk replacers at 3 to 6 weeks of age depending on breed and appetite. Smaller breed calves should receive milk a little longer than Holsteins and all calves should have been eating a minimum of 1 to 2 lbs of calf starter (grain mix) daily for the 7 to 10 days prior to weaning. Those consuming less may lose weight and do poorly for several days after weaning. To encourage starter consumption, reduce milk fed by about one-half a few days prior to weaning (Table 3). A special feed termed prestarter is commercially available and has been used by some dairy farmers to aid in early weaning." http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ds117

Question: Goat new kid, How important is colostrum? My pygmy goat is about to kid. She will be unable to nurse. So the baby will be bottle fed. I may be able to obtain milk from another goat and will also have to use store bought cow milk. But what do I do when first born? I don't have colostrum?

Answer: how do you know she will be unable to nurse??? NO - do not use cow milk from the store!!!! colostrum is the first milk - so you can milk another goat who has just delivered the same day and who didnt have many kids - or whose kids died.. OR you NEED to buy COLOSTRUM you can get it from vets or livestock feed stores.. here is a link on care for newborn kids when their moms cannot/will not http://www.bukisa.com/articles/73340_car… it will help!

Question: Whats wrong with drinking milk? Besides: Artificial incemination every year Hormone enriched feed Bribe/feed caged carousels killing bulls, excess calves and free martins at 1 week old excess feeding to produce 60 lites of milk per day intensive rearing means low husbandry checks removing calves from mothers after colostrum feed killing the cow at 7 years old This question is inspired by this V&V answer: "I don't understand vegan, b/c it doesn't hurt the cow, or starve her calves, to take milk....it's what they were designed for...I'm pretty sure if you don't milk a milking cow, they'll get sick and die anyway." Drink milk, help yourself, but please be honest about the effect it has on cows. I live on a farm and see dairy every week and can backup every bullet point i mentioned above so, feel free to correct me, but please do so only from a position of Knowledge, not hear-say nor milk marketing propaganda Thanks for those that backed me up. I can see that it could be read as i run a dairy farm. I have an arable farm, surrounded by dairy and beef farms. In most walks of life people might have stopped to think, or asked. But not Yahoo, this is the place where wild assumptions are normal !

Answer: These answers are getting a bit mean. 1. Michael H has chickens. 2. He lives next to the cow farms. 3. The cow farms he lives next to would be the "higher quality" ones, and not the even worse tortures of factory farms. 4. Even "organic" companies use most of these means. You can't get milk without making the cow get pregnant. You are not going to give the mommy cow's milk to the baby because you will soon be killing the baby for veal, and you cannot make a profit by letting babies drink your product. "Organic" milk farms do not contain happy, free-roaming cows who are enjoying life. "At a Horizon dairy farm in central Idaho, the cows don't look that happy. Four thousand cows live in a stark landscape of sagebrush fields, long silver barns and open-air sheds. Jammed in crowded pens atop the hardpan of the Idaho desert" ~Organic Consumers :) Organic means the cows are not given antibiotics (even when sick); it does not mean the animals are treated well by any stretch.

Question: breastmilk or colostrum? i had my daughter 10 days ago by c section. i never really felt my milk come in. when i pump i only get an ounce or so and it takes forever to get that. what i pump out looks white like milk, like cow milk so is that colostrum or breastmilk

Answer: Colostrum is yellowish. If it looks like cow milk then your milk is in. Pumping does not take out milk as well as the baby so 1oz wouldn't be abnormal. Your baby could likely get 2-3oz out which is plenty for a newborn. As the baby demands more from your breasts your body will make more.

Question: 4 day old calf, DOESNT LIKE normal milk and spits out! HELP? We got a calf the other day who was left in the paddock and who had colostrum milk before hand, we bought him back to the farm and gave him more colostrum (Just incase he needed it) and the next day started him on normal cows milk. We found out, he doesn't like the normal cows milk, is there any remedies or anything that can help with this problem? I know colostrum is sweeter than normal milk but how can we substitute colostrum with normal milk so he will take it ? I heard too much colostrum isn good for them.. Could it be that hes just not hungry when we try and give him the normal milk? He didnt have much milk last night and only 250 mil this morning, we will be feeding him at lunch time aswell ti try and bring that up.. He just doesnt want to drink the normal milk! We have even tried warming it up, no luck

Answer: What do you mean by "normal" cow milk? Do you mean milk straight from the cow, or the milk you get in a carton that is pasteurized? If it is milk straight from the cow (unpasteurized), try mixing it with milk replacer or the colostrum you've been giving him. I believe the sudden switch from colostrum to "normal cows milk" may have caused tummy upset and is the reason why he's not drinking it. The other reason is that he's not used to the taste yet. What you should've done was made the change as gradual as possible instead of forcing him to drink something strange tasting so suddenly so soon. A BIG no-no!! Get him back on the colostrum. Then start gradually weaning him from the colostrum, a little at a time. Make the change about as gradual as maybe 1/8th at a time. For instance, go from 100% colostrum to 1/8 unpasteurized milk and 7/8 milk one day, then 1/4 unpastuerized milk and 3/4 colostrum the next day, then 3/8 unpasteurized milk 5/8 colostrum the next day, etc. until he's on full "normal cows milk." Don't do the gradual per feeding, do the gradual every 24 hours. Like, leave the mix 1/8 normal cows milk and 7/8 norma cows milk for all the feedings during the one day, then change it slightly the next day as I mentioned. In cows, colostrum production decreases gradually over a period of 36 to 48 hours or longer. Colostrum production doesn't suddenly stop and gets replaced by normal milk. So you need to mimic this gradual decrease to make the calf accept this new tasting milk. Good luck!

Question: How can you drink milk, knowing what it is? this is the wikipedia definition of dairy milk (slightly edited to make less confusing): Dairy milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries the mother's antibodies to the baby. It can reduce the risk of many diseases in the baby. The exact components of raw milk varies by species, but it contains significant amounts of saturated fat, protein and calcium as well as vitamin C. This is also from the "Milk" wikipedia page: In addition to cows, the following animals provide milk used by humans for dairy products: Buffalo Camels Donkeys Goats Horses Reindeer Sheep Water buffalo Yaks In Russia and Sweden, small moose dairies also exist. Please look over the "Milk" wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk Now, think about it: Would you bottle human milk and drink it by the glass? Drinking cow's milk is strange and disgusting after you think about it. Do you agree after reading this?

Answer: -That's exactly why I Have Never Drank Cow Juice, as I call it. -And eggs either! I just cannot see me eating something coming from the butt of an animal, and as the product of its menstrual cycle. Nooooo! Never! N0-Freaking-Way..! To 'Melody' below me: "Never" means that: "Never". Don't assumed because besides myself, I know people that have never drank it either, and 'neither' eat meat.

Question: Whole milk or milk replacer? I asked this question yesterday but didn't get any good answers so here goes- I've raised numerous goat kids in the past and have always raised them on commercial kid milk replacer. However, I've recently heard that whole cow's milk is just as good, if not better than powdered milk. I'm really just looking for some other experienced goat herders opinions on this matter and what works best for them. I have a two day old kid rejected by her mother. She is still getting colostrum. Thanks

Answer: Whole milk is much better. In my experience and some others that I know of, milk replacer will make the kids scour. I've raised kids on whole milk and they've done great. Especially if they have already gotten colostrum.

Question: new Ben&Jerry's flavor announced colostrum crunch? would you still eat ben and jerrys if it was made from human breast milk? in PETA's newest tirade has suggested that ben and jerrys switch from cows milk to human milk. promted by a swiss restraunt that had started useing human breast milk to replace cows heres a few articles about it http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail… http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/…

Answer: yea i would still eat there, well i guess i would have to see how it tasted but wouldn't they run out of milk pretty fast, and how would they get it?

Question: FOUND NEWBORN BABY RABBITS? i was taking my dog on another hunt where he killed a mother rabbit...so i diddn't no if i should kill them or not so i just left them but the next day i was hunting past that place again and thought i might just take another look and they were still there but half dead and cold so i thought i would do the right thing and take them home to give them a lifes chance lol so they are warm now and have given them 1 mil each of warm blended egg and milk and im going to give them 2.5 mil each of pure cow colostrum tonight. so to break it down what do i feed them

Answer: hmm maybe use an eye dropper? search on google and if you dont find much call a local vet in the morning. who knows they may even take them off your hands for you. if not animal control should be willing to pick them up

Question: tOrphaned baby puppy sores? I've took in a orphan baby puppy. She was 3 days old when i got her. The person who had her before me said the mother rejected her and wouldn't let her nurse so she never got any of the mothers colostrum. The woman also didn't have any formula so for the first three days she fed her regular cow milk. I noticed she had bumps on her the day i got her. Now she's two weeks all and still has the bumps. They're all down her back and on her belly. They're crusty spots and then it looks like they're is a sore that is leaking the fluids that is making them crusty. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with their dog having this? What it could possibly be? and any suggestions of what I should do? I can't really afford to take her to the vet right now but when her eyes open i'm planning to. btw she's a full blood black lab Also any suggestions on what i should name her?? sorry it was so long. any advice would be greatly appreciated!! I have switched her over to puppy formula. I do plan on taking her to the vet asap. I keep her very clean and her box clean. She's just had this since the day i got her and it doesn't seem to be getting better. I have been cleaning the spots with bezoyl perioxide and putting antibiotic ointment on them as well. I read on the internet this may help. She just has it so bad that it hasn't done much good.

Answer: Her eyes should be opening already. You need to get this pup to the vet! If you can't afford a vet, turn the pup over to a rescue that can get her proper care. Draining sores on a two week old pup may be fatal! If she has a skin infection, it can go to her bloodstream and kill her. If she has mange, it may be contagious to you and others. While goats milk is a great base for a puppy formula, it is inadequate without adding other nutrients. Here is a site for those recipes: http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/breedin…

Question: Urgent new baby bunny help needed? Rex bunny - 1yr, first litter, not premature, correct dates. I came home from work and she had had 3 babies, 2 were dead, she has no interest in nursing the other one, her nipples dont seem full (but I have no expeience with how ful rabbits nipples get) I know about colostrum BUT feel a need to get something into this baby - can I give it warmed milk (cows milk) we are 1 hour from town so KMR is out of the question (stores would be closed by the time I got there anyhow) help if you KNOW - DO NOT GUESS> thanks doglover, I am 1 hour from vet.

Answer: We raise mini Rex. Did mom pull hair? If she did she is trying to be good mom. She is showing interest. Mom bunnies only feed 2 to 5 times a day and it only takes a minute. If you are concerned that baby has not been feed and doe is tame you can roll her to her back and help baby find nipple. bunnies do not engorge with milk and sometimes it is even hard to express even the tiniest amount. If baby is healthy it should search vigorously for a nipple once it touches the moms fur, if it doesn't you might have more problems. Call Vet. Keep mom calm in quite, warm familiar place, If possible.

Question: Caring for an orphaned kid (baby goat)? Yesterday my gf saved a kid (baby goat) from being attacked by some kids (human). It looks as though it has fallen off the back of a cattle truck transporting goats. It's umbilical cord was still thick and relatively new, so it could have been a day old. It can hardly walk (although I have been walking it around making it follow me and it's starting to do a silly prance). I have been feeding it full cream cows milk from a baby's bottle every two hours. It wouldn't suckle at first, but I have now got it to suckle big time after several forced feeds. I have an enclosed area in the shade (as it is hot here), with some water and a box to shelter in. I know I have to get it some 'colostrum' in its first few days, but I don't know where I could get it from. I am donating the goat to the high school's Agriculture plot, but I have to feed it until it's weaned. Does anyone have any other tips they can share to help make this goats life a little more lifeworthy?

Answer: Goats usually drink goat/lambs milk replacer- but what you have may work. I would try to get the lamb/goat milk replacer if possible. Feeding schedule is good. Everything else sounds good. We feed ours in human baby bottles as well. As for colostrum- if it was a day old (sounds like it was less than 3 by your description) it probably got some from its mother before it fell off the truck. Only the first few feedings are the most important. Are you wiping it's butt with a warm damp cloth? For the first couple weeks, you need to stimulate it to urinate and poop- babies do not have the reflex when they are born.

Question: My boobs are leaking....? I'm 29 weeks pregnant, and my breasts have been leaking for a while now. They usually leak the colostrum, and its always been clear, or yellowish clear. Now I'm getting white liquid out.. It's not white like cows milk, but alot whiter than what was coming out before. I will be asking the doctor but just wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else? Anything I have read talks about just the colostrum, nothing about a white liquid. Thanks!!!

Answer: Yes it's ok ! There are women who never leak before delivery (like me) and women who leak milk (like you) and anything in between, the average beeing some colostrum leak of pregnancy. You're just at the end of the spectrum, but there's nothing to worry about. Hopefully it means you'll have a lot of milk to feed your little one :) Human milk is not comparable to cow's milk, which is often skim and always mixed (formilk and hindmilk together), but it is milk ! Congratulations :)

Question: I'm blank & need your opinion on breastfeeding plus your reference for having that opinion, could you help me? While someone else in Y!A may have asked a similar question, I still need to hear your opinion and please mention your reference so I can put it into my consideration too: a) it's for the poor (budget feeding) b) was probably best in the old days, but today formula is better (with the added minerals, calcium, DHA, etc) c) it's still good for the colostrum only (and should be done only at the early age) d) has no nutritional benefit after 1yr+ (as the child can drink cow's milk and eat various solid food) e) best, even after child can eat solid (and is better done until the child self-wean) f) gross, or weird, or difficult to fit into our daily life, or another opinion BIG Thanks!!

Answer: I'd go with Answer E as well.... The breast is best! There are many antibodies in the breastmilk, which formula can't compare to... also, it's recommended by many organizations to breastfeed until the age of two or later... so that definitely knocks Answer D out of the park. Oddly enough, more economically disadvantaged women chose to formula feed, which I don't understand, because breastfeeding is so inexpensive.

Question: Whole milk or milk replacer??? I just had twin fainting goats born last night (yay!) and the first time mom rejected her little female. I've raised numerous bottle babies in the past and have always raised them on commercial kid milk replacer. However, I've recently heard that whole cow's milk is just as good, if not better than powdered milk. I'm really just looking for some other experienced goat herders opinions on this matter and what works best for them. She's on colostrum now. Thanks First of all, the pet store does not carry livestock and would not know anything about goats. Second of all, I know what I'm doing and the kid is very healthy and doing well. I'm not asking for people who know nothing about goats to answer my question, I'm asking for EXPERIENCED goat owners opinions on what they feed their kids.

Answer: Well . Go To Your Local Pet Store And Ask. See What They think Of The Goats now And they Should Be Able To Tell YoU Whether The Goats Are A Healthy Size So What Milk They Should Be On. Good Luck. (: