Boer Kids Weaning Weight ??

[babsbag]

So what are your hoped for or average weaning weights at 100 days on boer goat kids?

 

[20kidsonhill]

8 lbs at birth plus 100 x .5 = 58 lbs. But 100 days for us is past when we wean. We wean between 56 and 63 days, ONce and a while we will let them go another week, so 70 days. many of htem are 45 to 55 lbs by that time. A couple a little bigger and a couple a little smaller.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Wow you wean early. I'll wean mine at 90 days and I've only known meat goat breeders to wean at 3 months or 90 days.

 

[20kidsonhill]

By that age they are eating plenty of creepfeed, and we feel it makes more sense to put the feed into the kids and not into the adult animals. 2 lbs of grain goes a lot further in a 50 or 60 lb kid than it does feeding it to the dam.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

By that age they are eating plenty of creepfeed, and we feel it makes more sense to put the feed into the kids and not into the adult animals. 2 lbs of grain goes a lot further in a 50 or 60 lb kid than it does feeding it to the dam.

Yeah that makes sense.

 

[babsbag]

By that age they are eating plenty of creepfeed, and we feel it makes more sense to put the feed into the kids and not into the adult animals. 2 lbs of grain goes a lot further in a 50 or 60 lb kid than it does feeding it to the dam.

My question was posted for a 4h leader so I will pass on the information. It does make alot of sense. Thanks

 

[mdavenport0121]

20kidsonhill, I've got a bottle baby that is 53 days old today. I've been feeding 20 oz three times a day. Feed is cheaper than the milk, would you recommend me start cutting her back and within two weeks be off milk?

I read on this site that they need milk for three months. At two months old, two bottles a day with 20 oz for the following two weeks. The next two weeks, one bottle a day.

What's your advice? Thanks.

 

[20kidsonhill]

20kidsonhill, I've got a bottle baby that is 53 days old today. I've been feeding 20 oz three times a day. Feed is cheaper than the milk, would you recommend me start cutting her back and within two weeks be off milk?

I read on this site that they need milk for three months. At two months old, two bottles a day with 20 oz for the following two weeks. The next two weeks, one bottle a day.

What's your advice? Thanks.

Is it a Meat goat? Wether? doe?

 

[mdavenport0121]

The one I am bottle feeding is a boer doe.