Well, there is one more reason to use replacer over milk besides cost, the advise from the goat breeder you got the goat from. I assure you, i have no idea what a gallon of milk costs or replacer powder, wouldn't matter, I would get whatever I was suppose to get and the breeder told me replacer...
Ty, from more research I was coming to same conclusion. There doesn't seem to be any direct [abnormal]correlation to death of babies from proper use of the products.
The Mrs and I discussed it and between the two of us could remember only one time he even seemed "bloated" and that was the time...
First goat for us, he's just under 3 mths old now, we got him at 2 wks and have bottled fed him since. We've used replacer the whole time, no issues, always had pellets, baking soda, hay, a mineral block and water available to him. Raised in house like puppy!
House trained in about 4days just...