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Bottle baby goat hay feeder
Bottle baby goat hay feeder










bottle baby goat hay feeder

We usually keep the kids in groups of ten in their outdoor pens. Once the milk is heated to the right temperature, we bring it out in 5 gallon buckets and begin dolling it out to the hungry Stepladder youth!

bottle baby goat hay feeder

It starts early in the morning, when the person on bottle feeding duty measures and begins heating the milk in a hot water bath. With over 100 kids to feed, the task generally takes several hours out of each day. The daily ritual of bottle-feeding is an arduous, yet rewarding process. (These hungry little tykes eat their fill of delicious fresh goat’s milk) Here is a quick recap on the bottle-feeding extravaganza, including some answers to frequently asked questions that we get from our customers. Now that our babies are all done slurping down that delicious goat’s milk, we have moved on to full-time milking and goat cheese production! The three months that passed between the start of birthing season in late February and end of bottle-feeding season at the end of May have gone by in a blur, and now we find ourselves able to take a deep breath as we look back on triumphs of the season. Here we are in June and we find ourselves with yet another huge milestone down in the Stepladder calendar that runs our year - we are already all done with baby goat bottle-feeding!












Bottle baby goat hay feeder