Bottle feeding vs dam raising goats.

[cassie]

Thanks for the recipe

Wouldn't buying goat milk be better?
There are a couple of goat farms close to me and a lot of milking goats for sale on Craig's list

If you just need the milk for kid raising, there is no point buying expensive goat milk because kids do just as well on plain old cow milk from the store. If you feed raw goat milk to your kids you run the risk of infecting them with CAE. Most of the time my kids got the cow milk from my Jerseys and the calves got goat milk. That way I didn't have to pasteurize the milk fed to the kids. Both the calves and the kids did very well. Of course when I had no cow milk the kids got pasteurized goat milk. If I had neither, they got store milk.

 

[ronzxcvb]

If you just need the milk for kid raising, there is no point buying expensive goat milk because kids do just as well on plain old cow milk from the store. If you feed raw goat milk to your kids you run the risk of infecting them with CAE. Most of the time my kids got the cow milk from my Jerseys and the calves got goat milk. That way I didn't have to pasteurize the milk fed to the kids. Both the calves and the kids did very well. Of course when I had no cow milk the kids got pasteurized goat milk. If I had neither, they got store milk.

I just assumed goats milk would be a lot better for them
She kidded around 5 this afternoon had a girl
Going to build a milking table that holds her head so she cant back off and a diy vacuum milker If I cant milk her
Her kid will be getting cows milk after 3 days
Her

 

[ronzxcvb]

BTW what type of goats are they?
The old billy goat came with the house and Got little goat because she looked like they were the same breed

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

BTW what type of goats are they?
The old billy goat came with the house and Got little goat because she looked like they were the same breed
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They look like pygmy Nigerian crosses to me.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I always fed bottle babies whole cow milk mixed with cream. So 3 quarts milk, one quart cream. That is if i had no goats milking at the time. Or even a mix of goats milk with the above mix. Worked great every time. Hubby complained about the cost.