Is there a special way to mix the milk replacer to the red cap? Each time I do it the replacer looks like cottage cheese on top of milk.
Red top milk is not truely whole milk. True whole milk is the product that comes out of the cow. Once the cheese factories and cream products are extracted out of the whole milk you get red top "whole milk" as a by-product for us to drink. Some people have had good luck feeding this product alone, others add milk replacer to increase the nutritional value to the red top. Cows milk has different size fat droplets than goats milk or deer milk and therefore is not absorbed as well. Many people use the red top and do well so if it at broke, don't fix it. I use milk replacer formulated for fawns and that is what I recommend to producers. Good genetics are expensive to get, loose one fawn and you could have paid for alot of better milk replacer.
I have always used Fox Valley, I see that alot of people are uing the red cap and love it, I was told to mix 1/2 cup replacer to 1 gallon red cap,just wondered how to mix it without it getting cottage cheese looking
I just warm a cup of milk and add the 1/2 cup milk replacer to it and mix it with a wire whisk pour it back into the gallon of milk, shake and I'm ready to go.
Sandy Malone
Prime Whitetails
Rush, NY
Sandy Malone
Prime Whitetails
Rush, NY
