TLDR: what is normal for baby goat bottle feeding, how much, how often? Feeding behaviors, when will she eat texture, etc? Grunting after feeding? Tooth grinding? Not taking to the bottle.
I picked up an orphaned feral baby goat, that has imprinted on myself and husband, this is my third day with her. The first night we fed her a small amount of cow milk with a nitrile glove with a tiny hole in the finger. We think she is about 4-5 days old. Yesterday afternoon we switched to a bottle that we use for baby lambs and she had a big drink of lamb milk replacer. I’m having a hard time getting her to take the bottle and she isn’t drinking much.
Very little poop, but she is peeing. She makes a little grunting noise after eating when she breathes, I’m worried I’m feeding her wrong. She won’t investigate our poor quality hay, but seems to be chewing, like a cow would cud, even with nothing in her mouth, which makes a awful little grinding noise. Is this normal? Any pointers on bottle feeding goats? This is our only one, she is currently in our trailer, and is sleeping in with us. I know this isn’t ideal, but I couldn’t leave her out to die alone. (Mama is not going to be coming back for her, she seems to have died in the last big wind storm).
She seems a little thin, and less bouncy than I would expect. None of our sheep are due to birth for another 3 weeks at least, and I am not exactly welcome in the sheep pens due to family difficulties with my in-laws. She has already been referred to as “that thing” and “I said you can’t bring it down here” and “what will the lambs eat then” so the overall goat situation is hostile at best. I’m buying a 10 kg bag of milk replacer Monday, so the lambs will be just fine... we expect her to rejoin a feral herd when she is older (hopefully) they are all over the place here, with no natural predators. And there aren't any domestic herds to place her with.
I picked up an orphaned feral baby goat, that has imprinted on myself and husband, this is my third day with her. The first night we fed her a small amount of cow milk with a nitrile glove with a tiny hole in the finger. We think she is about 4-5 days old. Yesterday afternoon we switched to a bottle that we use for baby lambs and she had a big drink of lamb milk replacer. I’m having a hard time getting her to take the bottle and she isn’t drinking much.
Very little poop, but she is peeing. She makes a little grunting noise after eating when she breathes, I’m worried I’m feeding her wrong. She won’t investigate our poor quality hay, but seems to be chewing, like a cow would cud, even with nothing in her mouth, which makes a awful little grinding noise. Is this normal? Any pointers on bottle feeding goats? This is our only one, she is currently in our trailer, and is sleeping in with us. I know this isn’t ideal, but I couldn’t leave her out to die alone. (Mama is not going to be coming back for her, she seems to have died in the last big wind storm).
She seems a little thin, and less bouncy than I would expect. None of our sheep are due to birth for another 3 weeks at least, and I am not exactly welcome in the sheep pens due to family difficulties with my in-laws. She has already been referred to as “that thing” and “I said you can’t bring it down here” and “what will the lambs eat then” so the overall goat situation is hostile at best. I’m buying a 10 kg bag of milk replacer Monday, so the lambs will be just fine... we expect her to rejoin a feral herd when she is older (hopefully) they are all over the place here, with no natural predators. And there aren't any domestic herds to place her with.
I'd have some soft hay for her to nibble. Don't know why this went italics 
