Can calves have goat milk?

[haviris]

I always warm it, so I'm not worried about that. I'm sure I shouldn't have bought the formula, but we'd just run out of real milk (cow) and had just a few minutes before the feed store was going to close, we were at the vets and the vet said it would cause scours, so dad left to pick it up while I finished at the vets, I guess I'm not good under pressure, but I did want to make sure the goat milk was ok before using it.

Anyway, thank you again! I think I'm going to like this place!

 

[Rence]

I give my little calf Jersey milk and Nubian milk (without watering down either) interchangeably, depending on which chores I'm doing when.

And in case you're wondering (because I wondered myself), you can give them cold milk out of the fridge on these hot days too - they love it. I wouldn't do it with a newborn (and of course, not when it's cold out).

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Yes, an older calf can have cold milk. In a newborn you can end up with a calf with bloody stools so warm theirs.

 

[Rence]

Absolutely, those babies can't handle cold milk.

 

[haviris]

I am mixing it now, I wish I hadn't bought the replacer, I had every intention of using goat milk, although she wasn't officially mine until the replacer was bought, so that was another thing.