02/07/2018
Reposting this as it's been several years since I posted it and foaling season for many is fixing to get in full swing!
I have done this religiously for years and years and thankfully have plenty of milk in the freezer. Depending on how much milk the mare has depends on how many I store/pull from her, but every mare I store at least one off of if they have normal milk production....if they are a heavy milker I may pull 2 and then about six hours later go back and pull another one.
I have found that my 6cc syringes now come in the paper sterile pull apart seals intead of these plastic cases, so what I used last year and this year is breastmilk storage bags
https://www.amazon.com/Medela-Breast-Milk-Storage-Count/dp/B0714Q4YJ9/ref=sr_1_6_s_it?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1518021035&sr=1-6&keywords=breastmilk+storage+bags&dpID=417Yaf9HEIL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Not sure if anyone else saves colostrum, but I do on each mare that Foals and has plenty. Since I use 6cc syringes all the time, I have a lot of the "cases" these syringes come in. I have found they make wonderful single serving storage for the mini foals for colostrum. Easy to milk the mare into these, then store in freezer, when needed take out how many you need and unthaw by placing the case in a glass of warm water. Each one will store 20cc. China didn't have hardly any milk when little guy was born, so unthawed three at birth, and then he ate 2 more 2 hrs later,2 more two hours after....and her milk is down now.