What do you feed your bottle babys?

[RamblingCowgirl]

I wasn't sure if this should go here or on "feeding time"
I had bottle babys befor, but I had does in milk. This time around I'm not sure if I will. Our Cookie is bred for march, and the people we are buying some kids from have does due from feb to early march. I think we will just buy some milk from the same people we are getting the kids from.

But I'd still like to know what you all do?

 

[Jen4]

If you can buy milk from them I think that would be best... I have a bottle baby, he will be 7 days old tomorrow I got him from my neighbor the evening his was born, I'm lucky that my neighbor lets me milk his doe every mornin & evenin for my Ringo. I've also got 2 does in milk so if I had too I could give him their milk. Good luck with your new babies.

 

[Roll farms]

If I don't have goat milk, or enough goat milk, I buy Vitamin D milk from the store.

 

[20kidsonhill]

sometimes I use whole cows milk and sometimes I purchase a bag of Land O' Lake Kid Milk Replacer for goats.

 

[crazyland]

I'm bottle feeding two kids right now with whole cows milk. They had colostrum from mom and another doe who delivered the day prior. I put them on goats milk when I got them and then switched to cows milk

 

[islpet]

I use powdered goat milk from the healthfood store and powdered buttermilk mixed up and add a splash of coconut water to top off the bottles. Seems to work pretty well for me. I would use raw goats milk but it's not available here from anyone and the store cow milk is just plain bad and expensive.

 

[RamblingCowgirl]

Okay, thanks.
I would have thought cows milk would be bad/hard on them - A lot of people I know of who drink goats milk do so cuz they can't have/handle cows milk. All milk is high in cost around here unless you go with canned or powdered. Would canned milk be okay to mix with the fresh goats milk to strech it if need be? I'm still holding out hope Cookie will kid around the same time, so if I have to buy it wont be much. I'm on a tite budget here.