Bottle feeding boer goats

[rachelsflock]

This sounds like a good question to post on BackYardHerds. There should be a teeny, tiny link to the site at the bottom of this page in the brown section on the right. They do more non-chickens there and it's a sister site to BYC.

Goats can be tricky, difficult, and not chickens. Good luck!

 

[Michelle. LeVrier]

Thank you very much.

 

[cassie]

Here is a kid formula developed for Boer kids and mini goats. Both Boers and the mini goats produce a richer milk than dairy goats or the milk you buy in the store. You take a gallon jug of plain old whole milk cow from the store. Pour off about a quart. Add a can of evaporated (not condensed) milk and a cup of buttermilk to the jug. Shake it up. Fill the jug back up with some of the milk you poured off. That's it.

Bear in mind that some kids cannot tolerate milk replacers. Some do fine on them and some simply do not. I have found this to be true even with the expensive replacers made especially for kids.

 

[Birdsong 82]

It was much easier for mine to drink milk than the replacer. She didn’t much care for the replacer. We were lucky enough to get goats milk from a good friend who had plenty. Sometimes added cow milk. But Maybe it is like Cassie said...maybe the replacer just doesn’t set well with her

 

[Birdsong 82]

The same goat, if we feed her some, she makes this sound, I don't know what it is, and the other one spat up milk. We've been trying really hard to make sure they get fed. We did have 1 goat months ago that was 4 weeks instead of 2, and eventually took the bottle, grew up to be about almost a year old, but she hung herself.

Maybe try a different nipple. I had the hardest time but all the sudden she took right to the cheapo puppy one at Walmart. After going through 4 or 5 highly recommended she wouldn’t take. If the hole in the nipple is to big they will drink to fast possibly causing odd noises or the spitting up. Just A thought