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Unless the herd where the raw goat's milk comes from is tested CAE (caprine arthritis encephalitis) free, do not feed raw goats milk to baby goats. Most breeders feed pasteurized goat milk and heat treated colostrum to their kids. When I had my goats, I fed the kids cow milk form my Jerseys...

The kid will eat alfalfa when she is ready. As for a calcium deficiency, she doesn't t have one because, if for no other reason, she gets milk. Milk has plenty of calcium. Keep trying to bend the leg. And as someone suggested, a sling might help.

The diapers will not only prevent the mess in the house, they will prevent urine scald on the kid. They make things a LOT more comfortable for everyone.

I have used disposable baby diapers on kids. I have known people to use them on baby lambs, too. Get the smallest size you can find. I used the diapers on preemies that I had to keep warm and dry. They worked great!!

If your kids bloated and died, chances are they died of entertoxemia. Entertoxemia is caused by the bacteria clostridium prefingens. All kids and goats should be vaccinated for entero. You can usually find the vaccine, clostridium perfingens toxoid, at your local livestock supply. Entero...

That will work. The switch to milk is a good thing. The only reason to feed replacer to kids is for economic reasons. A good calf replacer is cheaper than milk but for just a few kids, it just isn't worth it. By the way, you can greatly reduce the risk of bloat by mixing the replcer half and...

What do you mean no cow's milk? Baby goats do just fine on cow's milk. Much better than they do on milk replacer. Any milk replacer. Baby goats can and do blow up and die on replacer, including the expensive ones formulated for kids. Some kids can tolerate milk replacer just fine, others...