Inexpensive housing

[secuono]

How do the bottles not get shoved out?? My lambs always facepunch them while drinking, just like would do on mom. Had one knock it right out of my hand this spring.

 

[misfitmorgan]

How do the bottles not get shoved out?? My lambs always facepunch them while drinking, just like would do on mom. Had one knock it right out of my hand this spring.

I wondered that too but i think what happens is if they headbutt it they hit the wood that holds the bottles and shove the bottle up into the slide part and then the bottle just falls back down into the hole in the wood so they can keep drinking. The holes look rather large and assuming the spacing is correct the side of the bottle would keep the neck of the bottle lined up with the hole and gravity would do the rest. The board the bottles rest on looks at approx 45degrees, so again gravity should keep the bottle on the "slides."

 

[Ferguson K]

SHOULD.

My goats don't follow should....

 

[misfitmorgan]

SHOULD.

My goats don't follow should....

Mine either but i can pretend

 

[samssimonsays]

Love these ideas!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I'm not used a lambar...how do you make measure how much each lamb gets? I like the bottles idea and if your there watching and just pop those who finish their bottle back into their pen or stall or whatever i dont think it would be much problem and i still think it would be faster then bottle feeding by hand if you have a lot of BB's.

You don't. That is the down side of using the bucket.
The breeders that I know who have used it have good success with it, but many leave the milk out free-choice.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

You don't. That is the down side of using the bucket.
The breeders that I know who have used it have good success with it, but many leave the milk out free-choice.

@Goat Whisperer, how do you leave milk out free-choice? Won't it spoil?

I'd like to bottle feed some this year. Would it be possible to train a kid to the bottle AND let it nurse on its mama?

I don't want to pull kids from a doe who has kidded before...unless maybe there were multiples... But it would be great if I could do both and get extra milk for us + friendlier kids!

 

[TAH]

How do you leave milk out free-choice? Won't it spoil?

I'd like to bottle feed some this year. Would it be possible to train a kid to the bottle AND let it nurse on its mama?

I don't want to pull kids from a doe who has kidded before...unless maybe there were multiples... But it would be great if I could do both and get extra milk for us + friendlier kids!

The lady we got our first goats from put the kids on the bottle in the evening and left them with there mom during the day.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

The lady we got our first goats from put the kids on the bottle in the evening and left them with there mom during the day.

I'd like to try that. Would also give us flexibility for selling early or not milking the dam on busy nights.

 

[TAH]

I'd like to try that. Would also give us flexibility for selling early or not milking the dam on busy nights.

Her doe also gives a gallon in a half each day so there was plenty for everybody.