|
|
Home Made Scour Treatment |
|
You can do this several ways. Take whole cloves and soak in warm water until you see a sort of brown tea water appear. Take a teaspoon or two of this water and mix with a pinch of ginger(the kind you have on you pantry shelf) then add enough slippery elm powder so it holds together and you can form a ball. Put this way back in the mouth so they don't spit it out. Here is another way using ground (powdered)cloves. Take a 1/2 teaspoon or more ground cloves, mix with a pinch of ginger and a tablespoon of slippery elm then add enough water so you can form this into a ball and give to the animal just as the first one. If you are bottling then just add the clove water or ground cloves to the milk along with the ginger and slippery elm. If I have scours I usually cut the amount of milk and add water to the bottle. If you feel you have coccidia then give this treatment once a day for seven days, (the cloves will clear up the coccidia). If the scours are really bad then you can just make balls out of slippery elm and give this once a day and give the other treatment of cloves, ginger and slippery elm once a day as well. I mix a large batch and keep in an airtight container... I measure out all the slippery elm I buy into the jar then add the proper amount of cloves then pinched of ginger..
1 tablespoon slippery elm 1/2 teaspoon powdered cloves a pinch of ginger..
I know of some people when bottle feeding they always add 2 tablespoons of the clove tea to one 8 oz. bottle a day.. The goats I have used this on love the taste...
Betty Shelby |
|
|
||||
|
Caprine Health |
||||
|
Color Carriers |
Color Carriers |
Color Carriers |
||
|
History 2 |