Bottle Feeding Pygmy Goats

Video Transcript

"Tom Boyer, Chalk Creek Boers, talking about feeding orphan goats. The young babies that don't have a mother, or that the mother doesn't have adequate milk for the number of babies she has. The best program that we have found is to purchase a quality commercial milk replacer. It has to be either lamb or goat, do not use calf. But either use lamb milk replacer or kid goat milk replacer. Mix that according to the instructions. We like to use just this system here, which is the Prichard teat, and just a regular disposable pop bottle. And you place that milk in here, and, put the...screw the top on it. It's then...we built this little homemade dispenser unit, so that you can feed multiple kids at one time. They can come up here and nurse here. If you only have one, then, of course, you can...or when you're just starting the kid, you can just hold it and get it used to nursing from the bottle. We leave the kids on the bottles for sixty days. At sixty days they come off, they should be fully eating regular hay and grain and other kinds of diet....other kinds of components to their diet. Take 'em off the milk, and then place them onto the solid feeds and you'll have much better success growing out your kids."