Bottle Feeding Baby Goats Schedule

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Bottle feeding baby goats schedule. Kids 2 weeks to 2 months. Bottle feeding chart for pygmy goat kids kids should be encouraged to eat nibble hay concentrate from a few weeks onwards. What is colostrum and why does a baby goat need it. Bottle feeding weeks five and six continue feeding the 3 times a day schedule of 8a 2p and 8p.

The amounts i have listed are just what has worked for us and our goats. Through the years of bottle feeding and talking with fellow breeders i came up with a bottle feeding schedule and i try to stick close to it the following schedule courtesy of louise goudge from tlc boer goats is how we feed when we have bottle babies. Start reducing the amount of milk per bottle or go down to 1 bottle a day. Most people feed 4 5 times in 24 hours and you can usually go 7 8 hours overnight between bottles so it s about every 3 4 hours during the day.

This special milk is low. Feed every 4 hours can go 6 hours without feeding during the night hay or grass should be available at all times from here on. Don t worry if the kid doesn t eat much more than a couple ounces for the first several meals. For a bottle feeding schedule see below.

I understand these issues. Feed every 5 hours can go 8 hours without feeding during the night. Bottle feeding has its disadvantages but it s a task that also has advantages. It is time consuming bottles must be cleaned milk must be warmed and then those hungry baby goats must be fed on a schedule 3 4 times a day.

If a baby goat can t consume much in the beginning i may need to give five bottles to get at least 10 body weight into the kid in 24 hours. Bottle feeding also forces the goat owners to being at home when it s time to feed those babies. Grain hay 1 week. Colostrum is the name for the first milk a mother any mammalian mother produces right when she delivers her baby.

Feed every 2 4 hours as needed 1 2 weeks. Day one preferably feed goat colostrum only for the first 24 hours. Kids should be eating with the herd. They are energetic and into everything at this point.

After that first day of feeding colostrum we move to the following schedule through weaning. If i am milking the mother the kids are locked up with the other kids at night. We generally bottle feed about every four hours or when the kid squawks. Frequency of bottle feeding baby goats.

The goal is to have them weaned completely by 12 weeks of age. Find us on facebook. Grain hay 1 week. Feed every 4 hours can go 6 hours without feeding during the night hay or grass should be available at all times from here on.

On pasture in summer and on hay in winter. Each bottle should have 10 15 ounces milk depending on the weight and appetite of the kid. Feed every 2 4 hours as needed 1 2 weeks. Feed every 5 hours can go 8 hours without feeding during the night.

And some goat owners don t want to bottle feed because it s considered unnatural when the baby goats mother is usually close by.