Whole Goat Care

1 pint of milk
1 beaten egg
1 tablespoon of fruit pectin (Sure Jell)
1/2 teaspoon of cod liver oil
Mix together, can be frozen for future use....
It makes approximates the nutrients in colostrum, but without the antibodies. IT makes a good first meal for kids that have no colostrum source.
The sugar in corn syrup and honey is not glucose or lactose. Lambs, calves and kids do not have maltase, sucrase or other sugar enzymes other than lactase in their little guts. Thus, using corn syrup and honey is not very helpful. Pectin, used for jelly making however, is about 1/2 by weight dextrose and the other half a sugar polymer that will break down to glucose. Eggs, by the way, have quite a few antitobodies for the baby chicks-maybe even ones against salmonella and E. Coli, so adding eggs gives you more than just nutrition.
Thanks to Dr. Kathy Thigpin for the recipe, as it appears in Caprine Chronicle and the Piedmont Dairy Goat Association Newsletter....