Doeling not feeding

[Roll farms]

TSC has a good medicated feed to prevent coccidia, Purina Noble Goat...it has deccox in it. Problem is, as little kids they can't eat enough to get the medication up to therapuetic levels....so I do cocci prevention until they're about 6 mos old or so.
You can order deccox crumbles from livestock supply places, but figuring out how much they need on their feed is beyond my high school math.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Thanks. I'm going to study up on cocci prevention today

 

[cmjust0]

FWIW, it seems like most of the doelings we've bottle raised have -- at some point -- decided they didn't want a bottle.. I had one who got picky for several days in a row and would maybe only take like half a bottle at a time.

Then one day -- poof -- everything was fine again.

Did your doeling nose around and the nipple and then sniff and snort and sneeze and carry on? That's what ours usually do when that happens, and it seems like they're usually somewhere in the 3-5wk range..

I've actually wondered if that's when their noses really start working.. It's common around here that a goat will sniff something -- a grain pan, for instance -- and occasionally just flat-out reject it. We humans dunno why, but the goats do.. So, we bleach the pan and -- Lo and Behold! -- they'll accept it again.

As for bucklings...I don't remember any bucklings being so particular as some of the doelings. I think they'll eat anything.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

As for bucklings...I don't remember any bucklings being so particular as some of the doelings. I think they'll eat anything.

Isn't that just like a guy?

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Interesting..maybe she doesn't like the smell of the rubber nipple. I'll try switching back to silicone. DH said "one of the babies didn't want all of it's bottle today". He can't tell them apart :/
I definately think she had a belly ache the other day though.

She did sniff the nipple, but no snorting or carrying on.