Feeding Baby Goats Cold Milk

If your baby goat has been raised from mom and is used to drinking milk directly from her then you ll have to decide whether or not you re going to move her straight to adult goat hay and grain or if you re going to try to bottle feed.

Feeding baby goats cold milk. Feed two times per day about 30 ounces. Offer the following food items to your baby goat as it grows. Okay so feeding a baby goat is absolutely adorable but this is not why you should ever choose to bottle feed a goat. The idea with the cold milk system is that the kids are provided with milk ad lib at all times.

Not chilly but not scalding hot either. 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. Weeks 2 through 7. We don t usually get kids down to less than three bottles ever.

My advice is that if the goat is younger than 6 weeks go ahead and try to bottle feed along with offering some hay. Cleanliness is so important. Make the bottles progressively less warm to get the kid to cold milk by two weeks. 10 important points you need to consider.

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

If it is cold outside heat it a little warmer as it will cool while you are outside. Baby goats will always act hungry when they see you because you are acting as their mom. Feed your baby goat new foods. How to feed a mother raised baby.

Until a month or two your baby goat will drink mostly milk and water. Baby goats should be fed at least four times a day for the first month and then you can reduce the number of feedings. 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. Heating it as it scalds really easily.

You don t want your bottle baby to have a belly that looks like it swallowed a basketball. Try to milk the mom. Squirting milk into its mouth quickly helps it associate the bottle with milk.