New Bottle Baby

[kountryboy]

One of my boer does had a baby yesterday and didn't want to take care of her baby. So I milked the mama and am now going to start bottle feeding.

Is it ok if I start feeding her some whole cows milk. I will use this recipe:

1 gallon Whole Milk
1 can Evaporated Milk
1 cup Cultured Buttermilk

Or is there a better recipe?

any help would be appreciated.

 

[dhansen]

I would milk the mom for several days to gather all that good colostrum. After that, I would just use whole cows milk. I have had great success with it.

 

[Roll farms]

I don't add anything to the cows milk, either....when I don't have enough goat milk to go around. So far this year I've frozen 30 gallons, so we have plenty.

 

[kountryboy]

Ok so just use regular whole milk. It doesn't need to have anything special?