Bottle Feeding Baby Goats

If it s store bought just be sure it is whole milk.

Bottle feeding baby goats.

Baby goats usually don t have to be bottle fed. 10 important points you need to consider 1. Cleanliness is so important. We are lucky enough to be able to get the milk from our own.

Sometimes though a mother goat will reject a kid for reasons that only mother nature understands. A general rule of thumb is if a kid lets go of the nipple offer the bottle one more time. Bottle feeding is what you will have to do. Milk replacer is.

Some people try to get kids down to only two bottles as soon as possible but in my experience baby goats are more likely to get diarrhea when given too much milk at a single feeding. For the first two to four weeks we give bottles at about 7 a m noon 5 p m and 10 p m. Mix gently each time before making up a bottle. When bottle feeding baby goats it is so important to keep everything clean.

Bottle feeding baby goats supplies. As the acting parent of a baby goat it is your responsibility to stop feeding them before they get full. If you have a goat in milk even if it is not the mother of the kid you are raising start there. A bottle fed baby that stops sucking from the bottle and isn t interested anymore has been fed too much and the amount should be reduced by 1 2 ounces at the next feeding.

Goats milk is obviously the best choice to bottle feed if you have it. The most important supply when bottle feeding is the nipple. If a doe has not accepted a kid within 24 hours you can count on bottle feeding the kid to help it survive. Take the gallon of milk and pour out about 1 3 and set it aside pour in the 1 can of evaporated milk and the 1 cup of buttermilk into the gallon then pour to the remaining milk that.

Plan on at least eight weeks of using a bottle. If you do not we recommend whole cow s milk. Since our herd has tested cae free for years we no longer heat treat the colostrum or pasteurize the milk that is fed to the babies but we continue to bottle raise because of all the other benefits. If your mother goat is calm and gentle and you plan on spending a lot of time with them that baby goat will most likely be just as sweet calm and well adjusted as a bottle baby.

This requires bottle raising all the baby goats on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk. This can come from either your own farm if you have a milk cow or just from the grocery story. Okay so feeding a baby goat is absolutely adorable but this is not why you should ever choose to. We don t usually get kids down to less than three bottles ever.