Feeding Baby Goats Cold Milk

Moom goats feed her small baby.

Feeding baby goats cold milk.

Cleanliness is so important. How to feed a mother raised baby. Weeks 2 through 7. 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.

Make the bottles progressively less warm to get the kid to cold milk by two weeks. During and after the weaning process your goat will want to eat some other foods. Heating it as it scalds really easily. The idea with the cold milk system is that the kids are provided with milk ad lib at all times.

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 your baby goat new foods. Not chilly but not scalding hot either. 10 important points you need to consider.

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. Baby goats should be fed at least four times a day for the first month and then you can reduce the number of feedings. For the first two to four weeks we give bottles at about 7 a m noon 5 p m and 10 p m. Until a month or two your baby goat will drink mostly milk and water.

Okay so feeding a baby goat is absolutely adorable but this is not why you should ever choose to bottle feed a goat. You don t want your bottle baby to have a belly that looks like it swallowed a basketball. 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. Feed 12 ounces and more if kids is still hungry as much as 20 ounces three times per day.

Squirting milk into its mouth quickly helps it associate the bottle with milk. We don t usually get kids down to less than three bottles ever. 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. Try to milk the mom.

If it is cold outside heat it a little warmer as it will cool while you are outside. Offer the following food items to your baby goat as it grows. Feed two times per day about 30 ounces.