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Here is a formula used successfully by many Boer goat and mini goat breeders. Take a gallon jug of milk from the store. Pour off about a quart. Add a cup of buttermilk and a can of evaporated milk to the jug. Shake it up a bit to mix. Fill the jug with some of the milk you poured off...

How old are these kids? If they have been on their mother and have never been introduced to a bottle, it is unlikely that they will take one now.

When I had my goats and a few cows, my kids got cow milk and the calves got goat milk. This was because I was on a CAE prevention program and goat milk had to be pasteurized unless I was absolutely sure the goat milk was from does that were CAE negative. The cow milk could be fed raw since cows...

Some kids do fine on replacer and some don't. I fed my kids just plain old cow milk from the store and they did just fine on it. This is a formula for kids used by many breeders of Boers and mini goats and most kids thrive on it. You take a gallon jug of whole milk you get from the store. Pour...

There isn't because there are too many variables. For one thing, the quality of the replacer makes a big difference. I would never feed the cheap replacer to anything. The replacer I fed was 20/20 meaning 20% protein and 20% fat with all milk products and the kids did as well on that as...

The statements about replacer sometimes being lethal are not unsubstantiated rumors. They are based on experience. Sometimes replacer works out just fine and the kids thrive on it. Sometimes it doesn't and the kids scour and some may suddenly bloat and die. I think it has more to do with...

Six months is a long time to wait. By then they are old enough to breed and they are very well developed, if you get my drift. By then there is a very large blood supply to the scrotum and testicles and bleeding after castration can be significant. Plus, castration is a lot harder on them than...

Plain old whole cow's milk from the store is fine. If you want to get fancy you can use a formula concocted for mini goats and Boers because they produce a higher butterfat milk than most dairy goats. You take a gallon jug of milk and pour off about a quart. Add to the jug one cup of...

No. Goat milk has about the same butterfat content as cow milk. Adding cream will probably give the kid the scours. The yogurt wouldn't hurt but it isn't necessary. The formula Stacykins mentioned works great. It is my understanding that it was originally formulated by a breeder of either...