Furthermore, healthy mares with foals also can have about 200 ccs of colostrum milked and subsequently stored and not risk depleting the foal's supply. Colostrum can be frozen and stored for not more than two years. The best treatment for foals at risk for FPT or with confirmed FPT or PFPT is equine colostrum. Normal mares produce approximately two liters of colostrum. If equine colostrum is not available, bovine colostrum can be used.
Bovine colostrum is best when given fresh, but frozen bovine colostrum can be used.
Foals with PFPT might require less. Lyophilized equine IgG is available commercially and is marketed as Lyphomune7. Seramune7 is a concentrated serum product that also is commercially available. The company reports that the product has been improved since the study, and now contains approximately 28 gm of IgG per bottle. There currently are no guidelines as to how oral plasma should be administered, but it would be logical to divide the treatment and administer it in several smaller doses.