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I have. 4 week old nubian doeling. She has been bottle fed. Taking quite a bit og milk. Actually think I may be over feeding her. She wants anywhere between a 16oz beer bottle size and 24 oz beer bottle size per sitting. Feeding whole milk. Just started her on alfalfa hay. She is 14 lbs. At times she only wants 8 to 12 oz. Eats 3 to the times a day. Feedings start at 6am and end around 10pm. Can she do just alfalfa or do I need grain for propper growth? We have lots of weeds here in az. My origimal theory was goats dont usually have grain at their disposal in the wild..... so can she do without it? How wi
l it affect her milk taste/consistency when she is old enough to milk? She is my only goat and have had her since 3 days old due to moms rejection. She hangs all day with my 5 dogs. And of course me and my human kids. Do u think she will be socially ok? New here... any tricks /tips? Was also told she wss kinda young to put on grain due to stomach issues. (We think she was born up to 2 weeks premature due to her brothers birth size/maturity) thx sooo much
 
Ps im trying to do as natural a raising as possible... do not want to do more shots than necessary. What are absolutely essential for her to have?
 
Your goat needs to have shots for entertoxemia and tetanus. Entero is clostridium perfingens. The vaccine you want often goes by CD/T. Entero is particularly common in areas with alkaline (sp) soil. It strikes without warning and the affected goat dies a very painful death. Clostridium perfingens toxoid greatly reduces the incidence of entero but it does not totally eliminate it. Therefore it is a good idea to have entero antitoxin and GasX in the medicine chest at all times. Gas X is for bloat. You get it at the grocery or drug store and it is very effective. Entero and bloat are true emergencies, they occur suddenly and without prompt treatment the animal will probably die.
 
I fed my kids one 20 oz bottle of milk twice a day. They had access to hay and a calf starter grain starting at about a week. I weaned them at eight weeks. Yes your kid needs grain for proper growth, probably about a pound a day after weaning. True, growing goats in the wild do not have access to grain but they do have access to milk. Kids will still be nursing at four or five months of age or even older unless the doe gets tired of them. Keep in mind that your domestic goat is very different from a "wild" goat because of many generations of selective breeding. If I were you I would go to the Caprine Supply web site. Send for their catalog. They have a good selection of books on the care of dairy goats. The catalog itself also has a lot of information. You also should see about getting another goat. Goats need company far more than other livestock.
 
Hi. Someone in my area has a goat for sale.  The goat has mastitis.   See add below:

We need to find our milk goat a home. She is friendly. She CAN'T be breed anymore. The people we got her from did not inform us about her having mastitis a milk infection and its lead to her teats being damaged. Babies wont feed from her and its dangerous to drink the milk. So PLEASE only contact us if you want her for a pet or meat. There is a rehoming fee of 50.00

So....My question is this..... I have a 6 week old female nubian.  Would it be ok if I bought her as a companion for my baby? I dont want it to jeapordize my baby or her future milk production.  Most things I have read pertain to fixing goats that have this.   

Thank you so much for your advice.
 
I know nothing about this. BUT, I do know a lot about human lactation. When a human gets mastitis it is perfectly safe to continue nursing her young, and she is sometimes told to nurse more often to help clear it out and take antibiotics. After the infection is cleared she's back to normal. So I really don't understand that post. I do know that permanent damage can be done, but if the infection is gone everything should be perfectly safe. It shouldn't be contagious or anything like that.
 

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