Artificial lactation of deer cubs

During the annual production season, some newborn deer are abandoned by the female deer, or the weak ones are unable to eat breast milk. Artificial breastfeeding is the only way to save these young deer.

1 the artificial lactation room for young deer should be spacious and bright, sunny, clean and dry, and keep warm (more than 15 ℃). Each deer covers an area of 1 square meter and has a proper sports ground.

2 utensils such as buckets, baby bottles, nipples, milk pots, stoves or stoves, brushes, thermometers, aluminum pots, colostrum, regular milk, milk powder, towels, soap and so on.

3 the importance of colostrum colostrum is the milk of animals within 3 days after delivery. Colostrum is rich in globulin, albumin, immune substances, enzymes, vitamins, lysozyme and so on. Newborn deer are immunized through colostrum, which can resist the invasion of infectious diseases, and colostrum contains magnesium salt, which can promote meconium excretion. If the artificial lactation young deer are not fed with colostrum, the survival rate is only 10%. If fed with colostrum, the survival rate can reach 97%. Deer farms should prepare colostrum for domestic animals such as fierce sheep before giving birth. Use mugs, plastic bowls or food bags, 50 ml a portion frozen in the refrigerator spare, if there is no preparation of livestock colostrum, deer colostrum can be taken.

Discard the doe with Eye Nai Nai Ma and wipe the breasts with a clean wet towel. The glass tube of a 50m 100ml metal syringe is put into the piston at one end to adjust the tightness, and one end is covered on the doe's nipple, the piston is drawn back, and the colostrum is pulled out, then the piston is sent back to 1cm. The glass tube is removed from the nipple, and the colostrum is poured into the sterilized bottle, which can be fed directly to the deer or frozen.

Colostrum is yellow-red, thicker, heated to 60 ℃ and solidified. Frozen milk can be heated in warm water, it is best to feed it now. The doe can pump colostrum 50ml to 80ml at a time, up to 300ml at most.

4 methods to dry the mucus from the young deer with a towel and feed the colostrum in the lactation room. The young deer can suck better if they can't. The milkman squats on the ground, holds the young deer between the legs, opens the mouth with one hand, and inserts the bottle from one side of the mouth into the pacifier with the other, milking the baby deer in the mouth, and the young deer will suck. After 2 or 3 times of training, the young deer will eat by themselves. If you are successful in feeding with a milk basin for the first time, you will often use a milk basin to feed milk, which is more convenient than a bottle. When breastfeeding, rub the anal area with fingers or cotton balls to stimulate defecation.

The success rate of artificial lactation is largely determined by sanitary conditions, so lactation utensils are boiled and disinfected with boiling water once a day, lactation rooms are sterilized with hot alkaline water or bacteria, and bedding grass is often renewed and dried.

5 lactation times and lactation volume 4 times a day in the first month, that is, once at 05:30, 09:30, 14:30 and 20:30 respectively, changed to 3 times after one month, twice in 60 days, and weaned for 75 days.

Lactation is very important, insufficient milk will affect development; too much milk, poor digestion is easy to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases. The lactation amount of sika deer is: 700 ml / day for 3 days, 900 ml / day for 10 days, 1100 ml / day for 20 days, 1300 ml / day for 30 days, 1100 ml / day for 45 days, 1150 ml / day for 46 days, 600 ml / day for 61 days, 300 ml / day after 71 days.

The temperature of milk was emphasized at 37 ℃ ~ 38 ℃ in the past. It was proved that milk temperature was not important. It was possible to feed 37 ℃ ~ 38 ℃ warm milk, 3 ℃ ~ 4 ℃ low temperature milk and 10 ℃ ~ 20 ℃ medium temperature milk. Often feed the same temperature of milk to make the young deer get used to it, but the cold milk deer do not want to eat, warm milk deer eat fast.

6 artificial lactation young deer should set up a flume at the age of one week to make them drink freely. At the age of 15 days, fresh and tender leaves and vegetable leaves were fed to exercise the feeding ability and gastrointestinal function. Starting at the age of 20 days, a little concentrate should be fed, such as corn flour 30% 40%, bean cake noodle 30% 40%, wheat bran 10% 40%, salt 0.5%, bone meal 0.1%, feed 3 times a day, unlimited amount, and withdraw the leftovers after 30 minutes. Young deer can be led outdoors every day, preferably to graze on the grass.