If a goat specific milk replacer isn t available in your area then you may want to try the goat milk replacer recipe below.
Bottle feeding goats whole milk.
Goats milk is obviously the best choice to bottle feed if you have it.
Some companies make a multi species milk replacer for horses cattle goats sheep but these are all different species with quite a variety of needs nutritionally.
We were given a feeding schedule and told to start them on twice a day bottles in the morning and evening of 10 ounces at each feed.
Try to milk the mom.
If you are bottle feeding baby goats this list is very important.
This can come from either your own farm if you have a milk cow or just from the grocery story.
Bottle feeding goats seems like the cutest thing you can do as a goat owner.
So make sure to keep a close eye however you decide to measure your goat s milk.
If you do not we recommend whole cow s milk.
If it s store bought just be sure it is whole milk.
But there are 10 important things you should know about.
If a goat specific milk replacer isn t available in your area then you may want to try the goat milk replacer recipe below.
Written by administrator gl sunday 10 february 2008 feeding bottle baby goats.
The most important thing i can stress when feeding bottle baby goats is to try and do what a natural goat mom would do the first few days goat moms allow the babies to eat many times per day but if you watch them they only eat a small amount each time as they get older mom will only stand to allow them to nurse.
1 gallon whole milk homogenized 1 can evaporated milk.
The primary ingredients are protein and fat sources.
We do not recommend milk replacer.
We brought home two 5 week old bucklings on sunday.
They were being bottle fed goats milk not nursing prior to us getting them.
1 gallon whole milk homogenized 1 can evaporated milk 1 cup buttermilk take the gallon of milk and pour out about 1 3 and set it aside pour in the 1 can of evaporated milk and the 1 cup of buttermilk into the gallon.
We switched them to whole cow s milk.