When selling them as bottle babies, would I recommend the buyer use pasteurized cows milk, and not milk replacer? I don't want to sell them and end up with a disappointed buyer and them having scouring kids. What about whethering them at four weeks? Do I leave it up to the buyer to do it?
So, we have tried some different approaches with feeding the quads. Now at two weeks, two of the kids are in the nursery full time and keep two with the mom during the day to milk freely. At night they're all taken from mom and the next morning she gets milked. It's working out, but now...
Okay, mum is a Togg and dad is an Alpine. 3 bucks called Comet, Dipper, and Orion, and a doeling called Luna. Everyone is doing well and nursing. Mama has her hooves full! :P
I went out to check on my girl Irish and found a couple minutes old kid! After that they just kept coming and coming. The first three were born normally, but the last one my mom had to help pull. It was born backwards. :) The funny part was that all us kids {the human kind}were watching! We've...
And I thought WE had a lot of animals!
4 rabbits and some on the way
3 goats and one sheep who THINKS shes a goat
14 chickens
2 dogs
1 cockatiel.
2 parakeets
....26 isn't much....right?:/
We have a ewe that lives with our 4 goats. We got her as a spring lamb and put her with one of our spring kids. They ended up as buddies. The only downside is that our sheep thinks shes a goat. :rolleyes:
I bred my 9 month old Holland lop doe to an Angora buck and on the 5th she had 1 big baby, dead o the cage floor. On Sat. she had ANOTHER deadbaby :hu !?!? What happened? Anwsers PLEASE!! {p.s. she is a first time mother}
Toggenburgs ,Sannens,or Alpines.
Toggs are VERY easy milkers. Toggs and Alps have good sized teats. Sannens not so much.
That's why Mom milks Lanie. ;)