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Cow's milk ??

Posted by Lyn Adams on April 28, 2011 at 6:27pm in Health

I was just reading that you shouldn't give a baby goat cow's milk, the type for human consumption

is that true ? I'm getting a rescue baby and I was told that they were feeding it part whole cow's milk and a power mix for goats. Yike's is this going to hurt the goat ?

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  • Lyn Adams May 4, 2011 at 3:05pm

    Thanks for that info.



    Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:


    He can eat whatever grain you feed the others.



    Lyn Adams said:

    Is there a particular type of grain, or is what I feed the other two ok. 



  • Deborah Niemann-Boehle May 3, 2011 at 8:00pm

    He can eat whatever grain you feed the others.



    Lyn Adams said:

    Is there a particular type of grain, or is what I feed the other two ok. 



  • Lyn Adams May 3, 2011 at 7:11pm

    Is there a particular type of grain, or is what I feed the other two ok. 



    Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:

    He should be eating hay and grain at five weeks. Dam-raised kids start eating solid foods at a few days of age. They are born with teeth so are very capable of chewing food. If you just leave a bucket where he has access to it, he'll drink when he's thirsty.
  • Deborah Niemann-Boehle May 2, 2011 at 8:12pm
    He should be eating hay and grain at five weeks. Dam-raised kids start eating solid foods at a few days of age. They are born with teeth so are very capable of chewing food. If you just leave a bucket where he has access to it, he'll drink when he's thirsty.
  • Lyn Adams May 2, 2011 at 7:14pm
    Hi Sharon, Thanks. So far so good. He's drinking Sav-A-Kid milk replacer mixed with milk and so far his poops are formed and normal looking. He is about 5 weeks old. Does anyone have any thoughts on when I should start him with some grain, and is their any special type for babies ? I also give him warm water in his bottle, he likes it. I can't get him to drink from  a bucket yet. I've never had a kid this small. When I get them they have been weened .
  • Sharon Barreira May 1, 2011 at 7:03pm
    I purchased my first bottle baby this year and I have two more weeks to bottle feed.  The farm I bought the goat from stated that I should just give it Cow Milk.  I was a bit concerned.  I can tell you that I fed Sav-A-Kid milk replacer mixed with cow milk and I did not have any problems.  I always watched the droppings to make sure they were formed and not watery.  I also received some good advise from this website, always hold the bottle up as if the baby was nursing from the mother.  My bottle baby did great and is very healthy.
  • Adrienne April 30, 2011 at 6:28pm
    Can kids still scour at his age? Might be good to use whatever they have and slowly mix in whatever it is you are switching him to...
  • Kare April 29, 2011 at 8:17am
    I also heard the Johnes part and that it can get past the pasteurization process and still be in the milk.  However, I didn't have any goat milk when I bought my buckling, so when I ran out of the goat milk that was sent with him, I used organic cow milk from the store and mixed it with Tillamook Yogurt and Power Punch (which was also sent along for him).  I just now realized that the yogurt was not organic, so that was rather dingy on my part? =)  But that is what I did...
  • Lyn Adams April 29, 2011 at 7:31am
    Thank you for that information, whats been done is already done. So I guess I'll find out tomorrow what the whole story is. Hopefully they gave one or the other and didn't mix up some weird concoction. I'm very nervous about all of this. But I'm praying things will work out for him.
  • Deborah Niemann-Boehle April 28, 2011 at 10:36pm

    I've heard people argue vehemently that you should (or should not) use milk replacer or cow's milk. And I've heard of people using them who've had babies get diarrhea. I've personally used both in the past and had no issues EXCEPT when I used a multi-species milk replacer. I actually had two piglets and a kid die when using it. So, I would never use that again. I had no problems when I used the Sav-A-Kid milk replacer for goats or plain cow's milk from the store.

    I have heard that cow's milk from the store can harbor Johne's disease, and some people believe this causes Crohn's in humans, but that's very controversial. In a goat, it would cause Johne's as that is a ruminant disease.

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