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I do keep them apart at night and love the amount of milk I get in the morning. And then the mom lets the doeling eat all day so at night there is very little milk. So when you say you never wean doe kids, will they wean themselves?? Or will they continue to nurse forever? Since this is our first time doing the it dam raised I am just wanting to make sure I don't have her still eating from mom when she is 1 year old.
But on another side note... all the questions I had earlier about dam raising kids you answered perfectly for me. The kid is not shy like her mom, in fact she is the sweetest thing but not annoying. We bought a bottle fed baby that I am ready to sell because of the screaming she does for a bottle everytime she sees me, and always up under me when I am trying to do anything in the barn. Even my adult bottle babies are annoying now after I see how great a dam raised kid is. Thanks so much for walking me through this process, I will always let mom do the job from now on!
Everyone does things differently. I personally never wean doe kids unless they do something obnoxious like bite mom's teat and make it bleed. Then they get a cold turkey ticket to the weaning pen, but that's only happened twice in nine years, and the doelings were like six months old. I like to leave them on mom because they grow so much better and they have better parasite resistance and less chance of coccidia. They're just really healthy.
Another reason that we leave doe kids on moms is because it makes life easier for us. We are usually milking 12-15, and if we have some kids on mom, we don't have to milk them unless we want the milk. When we want to make a lot of cheese, we separate everyone overnight. If we don't have time to make cheese, we only milk the goats whose kids have been sold. Like Adrienne said, once you take the kid away, you have to milk twice a day every day.
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