Feeding Baby Goats Cold Milk

We don t usually get kids down to less than three bottles ever.

Feeding baby goats cold milk.

Make the bottles progressively less warm to get the kid to cold milk by two weeks. The milk is kept chilled or at room temperature by using an old esky or drink cooler which is converted into a lambar style bulk feeder. Offer the following food items to your baby goat as it grows. Feed two times per day about 30 ounces.

Heating it as it scalds really easily. Moom goats feed her small baby. How often to feed. Cleanliness is so important.

My advice is that if the goat is younger than 6 weeks go ahead and try to bottle feed along with offering some hay. You want the milk at about 104 degrees a goats body temperature it should feel comfortably warm about the temperature you would want bath water. Until a month or two your baby goat will drink mostly milk and water. You don t want your bottle baby to have a belly that looks like it swallowed a basketball.

If it is cold outside heat it a little warmer as it will cool while you are outside. Feed your baby goat new foods. How to feed a mother raised baby. Squirting milk into its mouth quickly helps it associate the bottle with milk.

The idea with the cold milk system is that the kids are provided with milk ad lib at all times. Try to milk the mom. 10 important points you need to consider. It s very important to not give them too much milk at one feeding because over feeding causes diarrhea which can quickly lead to dehydration.

Okay so feeding a baby goat is absolutely adorable but this is not why you should ever choose to bottle feed a goat. 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. Not chilly but not scalding hot either. Baby goats will always act hungry when they see you because you are acting as their mom.

During and after the weaning process your goat will want to eat some other foods. Feed 12 ounces and more if kids is still hungry as much as 20 ounces three times per day. Weeks 2 through 7.