Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Feeding Baby Goats

Here is Michael's assistant Megan Sanchez feeding baby goats.  Megan helps with the kid care, milking, cheese aging, and cheese-making activities.  At first all kids are fed 3x a day by hand for about 2 weeks.  Buck kids transition to 2x a day gang feeders (3 nipples on a bucket) after they are 2 weeks old.  The older does transition to 2x a day but still by bottle at two weeks.  After 3 weeks some doe kids are also transitioned to gang (3 nipples a bucket) feeders.

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