Will dr. Browns bottle work?

[nana_4708]

Yes will a Dr. Browns baby bottle work with goat feeding?
Our grandson had to us them so I was just asking I have one and was just asking just in case I have to bottle feed one of the new babies coming up.
Thanks

 

[ksalvagno]

Can't hurt to try it since you already have it. Don't know if it will work or not.

 

[chandasue]

I ended up using cheap Evenflo baby bottles with an X cut in the top of the nipple after 2 frustrating hours of trying to work with pritchard nipples. The baby bottles work great!

 

[candyfloss]

I ordered some pritchard teats and bottles when we found our goats. But we got them before the teats arrived. I just used some cheap baby bottles that i had around that I had bought for my kids (and we never used bottles).

Like the pp said, i also cut an x in the top.

they work great and are really cheap.

the pritchards are sat on the shelf unused.

 

[goat lady]

I posted a thread on pritchard nipples. They worked fine for me last year and they seem to be leaking this year. There are a couple of pictures of nipples also from other people. Last year when I got my first bottle baby. I found out that she was just pulled from the momma and I was putting her on the bottle first. So I tried a baby bottle and she gave me fits just trying to feed her. Sadly she passed a way one week after we got her. Several months later I got two new bottle babies that were on the bottle for a week before I got them, and they were on pritchard nipples and it worked great even ones I pulled and bottle feed after two kiddings of our own. This year our one doe kidding a week from today and I want to pull her babies to bottle them and am having trouble cause the pritchard nipples seem to be leaking between the bottle and yellow part. I am going to TSC this weekend to look for some thing new. Sorry this got long.

 

[ksalvagno]

Are your pritchard nipples old? I don't have any problems with leaking unless they get old.

 

[countrywife]

I was once in a pickle with newborn twins, nothing open but the dollar store. I bought 2 quick bottles from there. The goats are long gone, I still have a bottle. They all work to a certain degree.

 

[goat lady]

one set of pritchard nipples were brand new in the package. I bought them a year ago when I bought a couple of packages of nipples. So I don't know if you would call them old if they were not opened.

 

[ksalvagno]

No, I wouldn't call them old if they were never used. I'm talking about nipples that have been well used. Maybe the quality is going down like everything else seems to be. The best nipple for bottle feeding alpaca crias is the pritchard nipple so I always have them on hand. But I also have regular human bottles with nipples and just yesterday happened to find some of the gray nipples that cmjust0 talks about. But as long as I have alpacas, I need the pritchard nipples around.

 

[goat lady]

I am going to Tractor Supply this weekend to check out the nipples there. So with any luck I will get it take care of. I have my 20 year old son drinking different soda bottles to try them also. Thanks for the advice.