How to teach a Baby Goat to take a Bottle
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- How to get your Baby Goat to take a bottle and what teat I use on our Nigerian Dwarf Goats.
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Oh my god she’s the cutest! She looks like a teddy bear❤️
Thank you for this! I wasn’t being patient enough and your tips were on point! 😃
How sweet she is. Hope she has a good life.
One of the cutest things ever.
Aw.......so sweet and you make such a good Mom. Loved when Luna wanted her to play.
Thank you for posting this, we used it to bottlefeed a very young buckling we had got and now he's almost full grown and healthy!
Cute Baby Goat! Great job so sweet and gentle.
I miss home. I can't wait to go back, buy more goats and sheep and do such things like this in the springtime. 😊
Spring will be here before you know it...
He/ she is so cute awwww
Great video thanks for the info my nanny had 2 kidding 3/5/20 and passed away suddenly today 3/7/20 went to local tractor supply after watching just a small piece of your video
Omg at her!!
Great info Terry! I wish you had made this 2 weeks ago LOL!
No worries, I bet you did just fine...
My goat had a baby today and I normally are able to pick it up and show it to my grandson and give it back but she refused it so now it’s mine
Great video! Most people have no idea that there is some work involved in a bottle baby. This makes me miss my bottle babies!
I have a nigerian drawf buck and this was very helpful to get him to eat out of the bottle
I really liked this video thanks for sharing ur cute baby's I love goats
+Blond in Boots Thankyou 😊🐐
Thank you! You are so sweet to that baby, im about to me a goat mommy and i needed some lessons.
Dear God thank you
It depends on how tired I am. I have both in my milking herd and show string. The bottle babies are like dogs and love you. The dam raised girls like you but prefer to be left alone unless you have a treat for them. Bottle babies are easy to catch and dam raised not so. By handling dam raised does milking twice a day, they become tame. My show does I pull the kids so the dam does not get lopsided and her udder is not beat up by the kids. I do both.
Such a cute little goat!
She’s so cute.
OMG!!! The cutest ❤️❤️❤️
I recently bought two baby goats, and I discovered they had fleas, what can I do to eliminate them.
What do u do for the bathroom in ur house for the goat
I put my babies in a big plastic tub with puppy pads. The pads will absorb the urine. Being on a liquid milk diet, they pee a lot. Once they can jump out of the tub, they go into a puppy ex pen in the garage on shavings. Once they are old enough, they go out to the farm.
Aww so sweet! Nice video!
That's quite a drive from central California.
We just got two babys one boy and one girl the boy has taken the bottle few hours after we brought him home but the girl hasn't taken it yet its been 2 days we've force fed her few times and that only lasted about 2 seconds but we know she's hungry cuz she keeps trying to eat her bed and grass and other stuff she can find but she will not take the bottle yet
I live in enterprise Alabama and I can’t get a 3 week old to latch on 😩
But what if they dont suck? I have been trying to get my baby to suck but he holds his mouth real still.
I have a goat that just had twins and one that had hers prematurely a week ago! The goat that gave birth today her nipples have large knots in them almost like scar tissue and my other goat took to the babies... she is feeding them but the babies won’t take the bottle for the colostrum supplement and I am afraid if I take them from the surrogate mom she won’t take them back! What should I do?
So cute
Hi! We are getting ready to get 2 Nigerian dwarf babies. Can you tell me how they do inside? What are their bathroom habits? I will be keeping them in a large dog kennel for now, but they are on bottles as well. What should I know? Thank you so much for making this video! Lauryn
Can you please show me how much to cut off the screw bottle top teet!?? We cant get out dwarf to take the bottle
Hi there! My baby goat (2 weeks old) is not wanting to take the bottle hardly. Any suggestions?
Hi Terry! Great video very helpful...can you put coats on the babies that are still with there mom's? I did not know if the mom's would still be able to recognize there smell? Thanks for the help.
I have without a problem. But Mom may tear them off.
Oldesouth Farm ok thank you so much! I have my very first ever kids due the end of February and I live in Ohio so it is still pretty cold here then. I did make kid warming barrels already but I wanted to ask about the coats too! Thank you for your help 😀🐐
just had twin buckling here in Indiana in cold February. I thought about coat, and made some from an old sweater, but Mama Snickers wasn't a fan so I took them off.
How sweet can baby goats get
That shot of Itsy at the end with your dog- toooo cute! Thanks for sharing. One of my does had quints last year, and it was touch and go with the last, smallest buckling. I tried to get him to take a bottle, but I didn't persist like you did, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. We'll be kidding again in a couple weeks, so this video will help. A question- some goat folks are really particular about the angle of the feeding, simulating a dam's teat coming from above the kid's head (better for digestion, I think I read?). You didn't do that quite as much here, maybe because it would be hard to get it on video or maybe until Itsy gets the hang of it, it's hard to do? Anyhow, how important do you think that is? Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
+Kristen Dyer I have never had a problem with feeding angle. As long as they eat it does not matter to me. I go with the flow and just get them fed. Different folks do different things. I don't think the angle is important and when they are large enough to go on a bucket the teats are on the side of the bucket. Kids do just fine. Thank you for the great question. Let me know if you have any more.
I am a newby with goats . just had some born . How can you tell if mother is feeding them enough? The mother is a first time mother and her utter doesn't feel full
They are probably then eating off of her. A warning sign is when the udder is hard and the tears are very full. Also, I would suggest making the kid feed off the dam, seeing if they do. If they don't after several times I would introduce bottles. And make sure to monitor throughout the day to see if the kid tries to feed but the mom just constantly kicks them off.
My doe (Also Nigerian Dwarf) just had triplets, is a first time mother & I'm a first time goat owner. She is doing a wonderful job, but the first doeling born was a lot smaller than the others. She can stand and walk, seems strong for her size, but the others were just able to push her aside. It's cold where I live (was 38 but fell to 7 degrees last night) I have them in the attached garage so I can keep an eye on them, with deep bedding in the pen. The bigger kids were doing wonderful this morning with mom! I kept the smaller baby inside.
When I got up to feed her this morning she drank 1 oz & did want anymore. I was doing some home school work with my little boy when she started crying (about 30 min after the last feed). She was sucking on my hands, etc, so I made her another bottle and she's been refusing since then. Is she just not hungry enough? I'm worried because she is smaller, so I don't want to withhold food, you know?
Should I continue to feed every 4 hours so she's hungry enough to WANT to eat? I was told by someone else (keep in mind she'll be 24 hours old in 2 hours today) to put a small dish of water out for her so she can drink at her convenience. Is that a good idea? I'm keeping her in my bathtub on towels. She's walking around, following me, peeing (a lot) pooping, making her little noises, and seems fine but when should I worry she's not doing well or not drinking enough??
Also if I take the babies off the mom and bottle feed them, will the moms milk still come in well? Does she need the babies to suckle to bring the milk in? Sorry for all the questions, advice would be so helpful!
I wouldn't put water out. She needs to be feeding. What are you giving her to drink? Her mothers raw goat milk? I personally would have left her with her mother nursing. If she's getting her mothers milk though that isn't too bad. She needs to be eating 4x a day right now though. Going that long without eating wil make her really weak fast.
@@TheKristenGibson - She's doing wonderful! I made an old goat milk replacer recipe & she's almost as big as her sister! She just needed me to keep on her about feedings until she took it. She's doing beautifully outside now in a pen with her siblings. My comment for posted forever ago :)
what do you prefer really, bottle feed or dam raise? Does it just depend
It mostly depends on the person. Bottle babies are great, but the time factor can kill you. Dam raised kids can be tame by handling them a lot and just grabbing them up and loving on them.
Oldesouth Farm what is time factor?
It takes 2 months to raise a baby Nigerian to weaning. This little baby, probably an hour a day with her slow nursing. Most of my goats suck the bottle quick and can easily raise 6 on a bucket in 45 minutes a day.
I feed 3 times a day for the first month then drop to twice a day for 3 weeks and once a day until they are 2 months. If a special needs baby will bottle longer. I start them on the bottle then when eating we'll convert them to a six nipple bucket. Takes about 2-3 days and they have it down. If one needs more attention will continue individual feeding. I work full time and go home for lunch to feed my kids.
mine just screams n refuses to eat
Where do you keep bottle babies?
I have a goat who is two days old and she won’t take the bottle for anything. I have gotten an ounce in her but nothing is working. I have tried Karo syrup to give her a glucose boost but nothing is working. Any advice on how to get her started?
If they are that young and not taking the bottle I would Tube her. But have someone experienced show you and get the proper tube. Cat catheter if tiny kid will work. But if you do it wrong can drown kid. A Veterinarian or experienced goat/sheep breeder could show you. Good luck and hope the baby got at least 24 hours worth of Colostrum.
Oldesouth Farm she got the colostrum and we took an eye dropper and we got her to eat she is now taking a baby bottle. Thanks for the advice!
Great Video!!! How many oz do you feed per feeding???
+Birgit Shields it depends on the size of the baby. Tiny ones like this, as much as they want. As they grow older, max is 17 oz. If they get loose stool or getting to fat less. If to fat and demanding more, I add water to make them think they are getting more.
HOW SOFT,HOW TENDER,HOW CUTE.......LOVELY YOU!!!
What exactly are you feeding her is it the mothers milk or something else?
The baby received colostrum from Mom for the first 24 hours and then received raw goat milk from the herd. We test yearly for CAE and Johnes and all the girls have been clean for years. We do not pasteurize the milk, we feed it raw. We drink the raw goat milk as well ourselves. If no goat milk available the replacer I recommend is Sav A Goat or Ultra 24 all species replacer. Have used both with great results when either in a pinch or milk sales required the kids to get switched to replacer. We get $13 per gallon for our Nigerian Dwarf Goat Milk and sell for animal use only.
Oldesouth Farm that's a pretty decent price for a gallon of Nigerian milk. Around here that's the price for a gallon of saanen (or other large dairy goat breeds) milk. Nigerian milk here is usually by the half gallon, and it's $18.00
What happens when they stop taking the bottle at 2 weeks
That is when one may need to Tube the kid. When I have a kid to tube, I will film it. Not had one for some time.
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I have a 9 day old that will not take the bottle. I've had him almost 24 hours now.
What did u end up doing? Curious because mine just had 2 babies and they won’t eat!
Oh she's a beauty :) Thanks for sharing it. Wish you were close by so I could buy some doelings from you :)
We do fly kids via Delta. Thank you.
In Order to get the mother to take them back...rub some of the mother's breast milk on the kid's tail & allow the mother to smell the kid's rear.
Was that goat wearing a modified sock? Lol so cute.
Yes, they come in handy... LOL
They flow too fast I use lamb nipples but for my one baby it's too big
Since you need to cut them, they don't come with a hole in them, we are able to make the hole as small or large as we need it. Not had a problem with to much flow. Can use a needle to make the hole if need a really tiny one.
Oldesouth Farm hi
When do you know it's time to stop encouraging nursing and go to the bottle.
First freshener (and new goat grannie) had twins. #1 just seems weaker. Poor latch and is growing tired and unmotivated... to my inexperienced eye. All I can measure the behavior against is by watching the difference between #1 & #2.
#2 is frolicking. #1 is napping.
Going on about 6 hours old.
I have everything I need, but don't want to take away is chances of being accepted by mom.
If I milk her out, would that be better?
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