4 Lamancha dairy bottle babies. New pics pg 6!

[bonbean01]

They are so very stinking CUTE!!!!

 

[newbiekat]

CUTE CUTE CUTE!!

 

[madcow]

Man, they look like lots of fun! They are the cutest darn things I've ever seen! Like the Lamancha goats! Wonder what a cross between a Lamancha and a pygmy would look like? LOL! Just had first 2 babies today and already looking for more! I'm hopeless!

 

[babsbag]

What are your plans for all those boys? They sure are cuties? Why don't you use a microwave to warm the milk?

You can make a lambar bucket that will cut down feeding time ALOT, especially as the darlings get bigger. i LOVE mine and couldn't do bottle babies without it, I don't have time to add more chores at the beginning and end of the day.

http://www.prydelandsranch.com/buildingalambarbucket.htm

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Man, they look like lots of fun! They are the cutest darn things I've ever seen! Like the Lamancha goats! Wonder what a cross between a Lamancha and a pygmy would look like? LOL! Just had first 2 babies today and already looking for more! I'm hopeless!

You'd get a mini mancha! The no ears are dominant for a couple out crosses, Might get some elf ears but even pure lamancha does can have elf ears. You have to do lamancha doe to pygmy buck though because its harder for small mama's to deliver half lamancha kids.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

What are your plans for all those boys? They sure are cuties? Why don't you use a microwave to warm the milk?

You can make a lambar bucket that will cut down feeding time ALOT, especially as the darlings get bigger. i LOVE mine and couldn't do bottle babies without it, I don't have time to add more chores at the beginning and end of the day.

http://www.prydelandsranch.com/buildingalambarbucket.htm

Keep one as a buck and the rest pet wethers! Or keep 2 intact if I just cant decide. Breed them to different girls. Odds are they all have the same papa so I dont really want to keep half brothers. I want to pack train them too, even if they never go packing. I'm getting pretty tired of my moody does! lol so I dont mind keeping pet wethers. If anyone absolutely fell in love with one of these guys and had to have him I could probably be talked out of one too.. lol

I was thinking about doing a bottle rack. I have left over wood from my stanchion and extra bottles and pritchard nipples.
http://farmandfablemusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/get-your-goat.html Kinda like the one here but with the bottles more secure in place.

I guess the lambar nipples aren't hard to find though. We talked about doing this but I settled on the other idea. The grey/black/white one would eat until he exploded if I didn't measure the amount out. and he eats so fast he would be stealing from the smaller(younger) boys.

I'm not sure why I dont use the microwave. I was taught not to do it with kitten milk replacer because the hot spots in the milk can kill the good stuff in the milk. Not like pasturizing doesn't do that already.. Plus I use plasic soda bottles and I woldn't microwave the milk in them.. What do people microwave milk in anyways?

 

[babsbag]

I'm not sure why I dont use the microwave. I was taught not to do it with kitten milk replacer because the hot spots in the milk can kill the good stuff in the milk. Not like pasturizing doesn't do that already.. Plus I use plasic soda bottles and I woldn't microwave the milk in them.. What do people microwave milk in anyways?

I can get a gallon milk jug in mine if I prop it at an angle against one side and turn off the turn table. I was feeding one baby and supplementing 3 others and going through over a gallon a day before I had them weaned. At the time I knew how many minutes on the microwave and then I dumped it in the lambar bucket so it was well mixed and no hot spots. I stopped warming the milk at about 4 weeks. I wanted to slow down the feeding frenzy.

I don't have room for any more bucks at my place otherwise I would snag one from you. They are ADORABLE.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I was taught not to microwave any baby milk or replacer as the microwaves can denature the milk proteins... this is just what I've heard from the kitten rescue I used to volunteer for, I don't know if it's actually true or not, but I never microwaved it after that... off to google to do to research!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

I dont microwave milk in plastic. Whether its the milk jug or the soda bottles I'm using. I microwaved milk in a soda bottle once. It STANK. Something ovbviously happened during the heating process. I didn't feed it to the baby and dumped it.

They are seriously awesome! lol Except they're going to drink me outta the house! I'm going through 3 gallons every 2 days..

 

[Missy]

Wow what a beautiful bunch!