Is this normal?

[BYFarmer]

We have two bottle baby pygmy bucks that are almost 3weeks old. They are eating: 3 bottles-8oz 3X a day. Offered sweet feed, even dusted it w/dry milk replacer and no interest. Offered water, not interested. The graze during the day and get a few leaves, grass and whatever the can mouth. Does this seem like an addequate diet for their age?? The seem happy and playful otherwise, just want to make sure as they are not interested in the sweet feed yet?? TIA

 

[Roll farms]

My kids usually won't mess w/ the pelleted feeds until about 4-5 weeks old....I offer them good grass hay first, they usually start playing with it around 2 weeks.
I'd start them on a 16% medicated (for cocci) goat feed, JMHO.

 

[chandasue]

My Nigerians are 3 and a half weeks old basically feeding them the same: hay, grain, vegetation in the yard. They nibble a little of everything but very little of the grain, just a bite or two at most. When they were a couple days old I gently stuck their mouth in the water bowl so they'd lick the water off for a couple days in a row (with lots of "oh what a good kid you are" sweet talk) and they learned pretty quickly that water is good. So you could try that.