If mother goats die, baby kids need to be bottle fed by careful dairy farmers to raise them docile and handleable. Learn to raise newborn dairy goats from an organic farmer in this free dairy farming video. Expert: Daniel Botkin Bio: Daniel Botkin is an avid organic gardener, micro-farmer and permaculture advocate who recognizes the timeliness of backyard agriculture and permaculture-style food gardens. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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This is a stupid question, but does a female goat need to be pregnant to produce milk or do female goats just naturally produce milk? Thanks.
I have a bottle baby. She’s ussually under my feet!! =D
Daniel, what is your recommendation for easing the kids back into the heard? Thank you!
You can freeze the colostrum for future bottle babies. Also, they will not stop eating, it is very easy to create a problem with enterotoxemia by over-feedingbottle babies.
could a person freeze the colostrum for future bottle feeding?
she wont make a “superior milk goat” just because they are bottle fed! And feeding five times a day is crazy….unless you have nothing else to do. i start mine out three times a day
No they will not stop drinking when their full. You need to measure. Their is a LOT to bottle feeding them! They shouldn’t be drinking with their head sideways either, but straight ahead instead.
will the kids stop eating when their full or do you have to measure the milk so they dont over-eat?
Have her to hold the bottle so that the baby is reaching. It is much easier for them to drink that way. I raise Toggs.