Sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk for goat milk replacement recipe

[eggspecto_patronum]

Do you use evaporated milk or sweetened condensed milk when making goat milk to bottle feed kids? I'm assuming evaporated but want to be sure.

 

[cassie]

Do you use evaporated milk or sweetened condensed milk when making goat milk to bottle feed kids? I'm assuming evaporated but want to be sure.

Plain old canned milk. I think it is called evaporated milk. Do not use sweetened condensed milk.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

Actually...just buy good old regular milk....not canned...not anything..just milk...at least that’s what I’ve been told

 

[cassie]

Actually...just buy good old regular milk....not canned...not anything..just milk...at least that’s what I’ve been told

You can feed just plain old homogenized milk. However, there is a formula for baby goats and I think that is what the OP was referring to. It was designed primarily for mini goats and Boers because those goats produce a richer milk than your average dairy goat, but all kids do well on it. To make it, you take a gallon jug of whole milk from the store and pour off about a quart. To the jug you add a can of evaporated milk and a cup of buttermilk. Shake it up and then fill the jug back up with some of the milk you poured off. That's it.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

The have goat milk replacer at some feed stores. That's always what we used because it's formulated for goats.

 

[cassie]

The have goat milk replacer at some feed stores. That's always what we used because it's formulated for goats.

Sometimes kids do just fine on replacer and sometimes they don't. Some kids cannot tolerate replacer and that includes the fancy expensive ones made just for kids. I think it depends on the physiology of the individual kid more than anything. You are so much better off to feed milk than any replacer. Oldhenlikesdogs has had very good luck with replacer and it took me a while to find out why she was so successful using it. Turned out the replacer she used was made with goat milk.

 

[eggspecto_patronum]

You can feed just plain old homogenized milk. However, there is a formula for baby goats and I think that is what the OP was referring to. It was designed primarily for mini goats and Boers because those goats produce a richer milk than your average dairy goat, but all kids do well on it. To make it, you take a gallon jug of whole milk from the store and pour off about a quart. To the jug you add a can of evaporated milk and a cup of buttermilk. Shake it up and then fill the jug back up with some of the milk you poured off. That's it.

Yes this is what I was referring to thank you.

 

[eggspecto_patronum]

The have goat milk replacer at some feed stores. That's always what we used because it's formulated for goats.

I'm reading a lot of reports of it causing scour (sp?) or causing kids to die.
Not sure how much of human error plays into that but I'd rather not chance it.

 

[cassie]

I'm reading a lot of reports of it causing scour (sp?) or causing kids to die.
Not sure how much of human error plays into that but I'd rather not chance it.

It has to do with the individual kid more than anything. Human error may occasionally be the cause of problems, but there are some kids that simply cannot tolerate any replacer. They may scour or, worse, they may just blow up and die with no warning.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

The have goat milk replacer at some feed stores. That's always what we used because it's formulated for goats.

Yes, I have the colostrum replacer..but, I am on BYH...and many experienced goat owners have said regular milk is just fine...I was really shocked at this response , and we went over it lik three time,plus there were many others on the the thread...they all agreed..regul milk..once the kids are old enough to not need colostrum is fine for them