Thanks so much for for getting back to me so soon! We did try the Pritchard with no luck yet. He's just SO offended. (His brother is just the opposite: cuddly, easygoing, and sucks the bottle for all he's worth!)Went ahead and tubed His Highness for now. Will try again in a while!
Kids do not just grab an artificial nipple and start sucking. It works best with a Pritchard teat because you use a flexible bottle, and you can squeeze it and drip the milk into the kids mouth until it starts sucking.
Here's a video I created a couple of weeks ago about giving kids their first bottles
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You're welcome! So glad he figured it out so fast! That wasn't bad at all.
Robin Arthun said:
Kids do not just grab an artificial nipple and start sucking. It works best with a Pritchard teat because you use a flexible bottle, and you can squeeze it and drip the milk into the kids mouth until it starts sucking.
Here's a video I created a couple of weeks ago about giving kids their first bottles
https://www.facebook.com/ThriftyHomesteader/videos/1500847820044827/
Here's the basic info on bottle-feeding -- https://thriftyhomesteader.com/bottle-feeding-goat-kids/