TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
Whoo hoo!!! I can't wait to see him!!
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Whoo hoo!!! I can't wait to see him!!g
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freemotion
Food Guru
He is a cutie.
Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
Can't wait to see him!
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freemotion
Food Guru
He should cross nicely with a certain Saanen-Oberhasli doeling..... 
Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
I'm sure hoping!! I all but ran out to tell Miss Daisy that her new boyfriend is home! Her brother is driving me nuts. Keeps getting his head stuck in the fence. Down low. Then he can't get it out and Donki starts bonking him. At least that makes him scream so I can come out and rescue him. But I'm afraid to leave the house. I think he's sticking his head out when the hay runs out, looking for what fell on the other side. We'll have to reconfigure the hay rack set up I think.freemotion said:He should cross nicely with a certain Saanen-Oberhasli doeling.....
Back to the buckling.....
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I still have my babies on bottles. They get electrolites in their morning bottle and milk diluted with water in their pm bottle. I think they need their bottle more than the nutrients for comfort. They love to cuddle. I think that like baby kittens, they need as muchnuturing as they can get. Since we don't spend the time with them as momma would, they require a substitute: ie: a bottle.
My bottle baby kitten that I adopted, nursed on the wool sweater for a full year. He chewed holes in the sweater. Once he decided that he was big enough to go out in the front yard, he also quit sucking holes in the sweater.
So I am being patient with my babies, and I keep giving them the bottle. Especially since I have to keep changing the environment and cannot spend as much time with them as they or I would like.
My bottle baby kitten that I adopted, nursed on the wool sweater for a full year. He chewed holes in the sweater. Once he decided that he was big enough to go out in the front yard, he also quit sucking holes in the sweater.
So I am being patient with my babies, and I keep giving them the bottle. Especially since I have to keep changing the environment and cannot spend as much time with them as they or I would like.
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freemotion
Food Guru
FD, because of your experience I will keep both babies on milk well over three months.
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I started to reduce the milk at 8 weeks also. That was when we ended up with the goat polio. Per the vet's advice, we increased the milk for a few more weeks, more like 4 weeks and have since been reducing it again. I dilute it with water, so the goats get to drink as much as before, it just isn't as much milk. I have them down to about 1/2 cup of milk per day now.
One nice thing about them still drinking from the bottle is, that it is easy to give them supplements. I put Molly's herbals in their bottle and they just suck it right down. When I was giving Flower her pain meds, I just put it in the bottle with some electrolite/vitamin water.
I figure, we'll be giving them bottles with just water, until they no longer want the bottle. They have started to occasionally skip a bottle or not drink all of it.
Now that we finally got the electric fence hooked up, we are putting them into their new enclosure, which they are not happy about. Silly goats. It is so much bigger, with plenty of weeds and low trees for them to graze on and room to run and jump and play. So I have been giving them more electrolite/vitamins to help them recover from the stress of it.
One nice thing about them still drinking from the bottle is, that it is easy to give them supplements. I put Molly's herbals in their bottle and they just suck it right down. When I was giving Flower her pain meds, I just put it in the bottle with some electrolite/vitamin water.
I figure, we'll be giving them bottles with just water, until they no longer want the bottle. They have started to occasionally skip a bottle or not drink all of it.
Now that we finally got the electric fence hooked up, we are putting them into their new enclosure, which they are not happy about. Silly goats. It is so much bigger, with plenty of weeds and low trees for them to graze on and room to run and jump and play. So I have been giving them more electrolite/vitamins to help them recover from the stress of it.
Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
waitin' on pictures......
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freemotion
Food Guru
Sorry, no pics until the good computer is back online.
