Bottle Feeding Baby Goats

If you have a goat in milk even if it is not the mother of the kid you are raising start there.

Bottle feeding baby goats.

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. Bottle feeding is what you will have to do. This can come from either your own farm if you have a milk cow or just from the grocery story. Bottle feeding baby goats supplies.

Sometimes though a mother goat will reject a kid for reasons that only mother nature understands. Milk replacer is. 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.

Hands down a pritchard teat works best for. A general rule of thumb is if a kid lets go of the nipple offer the bottle one more time. We don t usually get kids down to less than three bottles ever. The most important supply when bottle feeding is the nipple.

Cleanliness is so important. When bottle feeding baby goats it is so important to keep everything clean. Plan on at least eight weeks of using a bottle. Baby goats usually don t have to be bottle fed.

If it s store bought just be sure it is whole milk. Mix gently each time before making up a bottle. Goats milk is obviously the best choice to bottle feed if you have it. As the acting parent of a baby goat it is your responsibility to stop feeding them before they get full.

This requires bottle raising all the baby goats on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk. If you want to try bottle feeding i have always found it to be a fun and rewarding experience. 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. 10 important points you need to consider 1.

We always use raw goats milk with our bottle babies. We are lucky enough to be able to get the milk from our own. For the first two to four weeks we give bottles at about 7 a m noon 5 p m and 10 p m. 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.