From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katherine Sprague) Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2000,
10:46am (EST-3) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (g. m.) Subject: Re: Posting to GML
Absolutely ! just credit my grandmother, in her lifetime she probably
saved more animals than many vets.
It was all common farm sense.
Kathy
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From: g. m. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Posting to GML
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:09 AM
Kathy can I post your excellent email on soaking bread to the Gerbil
Mailing List.
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From: "Katherine Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have found when the babies begin nibbling at food and there's a runt a
little piece of bread soaked in milk or apple juice helps them along.
Quite often they are suffering from dehydration on top of everything
else. If you need to give antibiotics it's much easier to mix the liquid
drug with juice and soak a tiny bit of bread to feed the ailing gerb.
They actually recieve the entire dose that way instead of having it run
down their chin or into their lungs. My grandmother taught me that
little trick 20 years ago : ) Hope everything works out.
Kathy
the other member said about the milk problem does seem to fit in because
the mother does seem to be quite bad. It's her first litter and seemed
to me as though she didn't know what she was doing. It took them ages
before their fur arrived and on more than one occasion they worried me
because I did think they weren't getting enough milk. they looked like
little skelly-bobs! Now they are filling out more because they are
nibbling their own food.
Will it go away...?
Donna >>
I hope so : 0-), We've all got our fingers (and paws) crossed for the
poor
guy over here!
It may be a comfort to you to know that moms usually do a better job the
second time around, or so I've read (from online, not a book).
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