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  1. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    You really don't need goat milk. Kids do fine on cow milk. When I had cows my kids got cow milk and the calves got goat milk. That way I didn't have to pasteurize milk fed to the kids. I was on a CAE prevention program and CAE is transmitted to the kids by feeding raw goat milk. Both the...
  2. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Just a comment. You don't have to pull the kids. You can offer the kids a bottle to see if they will take it. They probably won't and that would be true whether you pulled them off the doe or not. A lot of the time kids that have been on the doe will NOT take a bottle no matter what. If you...
  3. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Makes sense to me. It costs the same to feed a good productive animal as it does to feed one that isn't.
  4. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Just a comment. I had a commercial dairy for years and most of the time my kids were bottle raised. None of them were people dependent when the grew up and every one of them knew they were a goat. Every single one of them. As long as they grow up with other goats it is not an issue. It just...
  5. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Why would you cull the doe and the bucklings? The maternal instinct is hereditary to an extent, but it sounds like the doe's maternal instinct is working just fine. She is taking care of the other kids, isn't she? For whatever reason she isn't bonded to that one kid. It happens. Mothers may...
  6. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    As for the ice cream, I once knew a lady who raised dogs. I forget what breed, but she would give the new mothers a dish of vanilla ice cream right after they finished whelping. Some authorities don't think the ice cream is a good idea, but the dogs really liked it and it didn't seem to hurt...
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    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

  8. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Sometimes does will simply reject a kid. Usually, but not always, this happens if there are more than two babies. I once had a doe that had two kids, a buck and a doe, and for some reason she took an instant dislike to the doe kid. She did clean the kid up, but that was it. She would pick...
  9. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    Can you be a little more explicit when you say the baby is not doing well? Has it had its first colostrum?
  10. cassie

    Stupid Goat, Emergency?

    She will probably be OK. Just a couple comments. One, the best thing I have found for bloat is GasX. It is fast, safe, and effective. Two things I ALWAYS kept in my goat medicine chest were GasX and an up-to-date bottle of clostridium perfingens antitoxin. Secondly, if a goat gets...
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