If the kid is really fighting you, check to see if the milk has cooled off a lot.
It should neither feel hot nor cold, but body temperature. Warm the milk in the bottle and test the temperature just like you would for a human baby's bottle by shaking some onto your arm. Use warm milk – Goat's milk is warm when coming from the mama's udder.Tips For What to Do If Your Baby Goat Won't Take a Bottle Even with me milking the other side morning and night, I wasn't sure I could prevent damage to her udder so we pulled off the kid and bottle-fed it. Once, we had a doe that got a lopsided udder because her kid would only drink from one side. Other times, I have chosen to train a baby goat to a bottle.įor instance, if I have bucklings that I am planning to sell, I put them on the bottle so that they can be away from their mother. If this happens, it is necessary to step in and bottle feed the newborns. Some does will reject their kids, especially if there are multiples. Like when our doe passed away unexpectedly from hypocalcemia leaving us with two young goat kids that needed to be bottle-fed. However, there are two reasons why we have bottle-fed them instead.įirst, in emergencies.
We prefer our goat kids to be dam-raised. We have enjoyed raising goats on our homestead for years.
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If you are looking for information about how to milk a goat or about milk breeds like Nigerian Dwarf, Nubian, and Lamancha, check out my post on how to milk a goat. Get some tips to help you troubleshoot why your baby goat isn't taking the bottle. Take the guesswork out of bottle feeding baby goats by knowing how much milk newborn kids need, how often to schedule feedings, and how long to bottle feed before weaning.
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