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[goatlover270]

Ok I know that most have been focusing on the post about criticizing others today, but I have something more to focus on at this time.
I was talking to someone today that was telling me that I shouldn't allow my babies to drink water. Now, I have always had water made available to the nanny's and they stay in a seperate stall all their own, with their baby.
I have always done this and no problems with it that I know of, so far.
Is there anyone else out there that thinks or believes that a water bucket should not be available so baby can drink from it????
I was trying to find something on here about water and I did find one on the Emergency post ...something about water but I am not so sure that is the answer I am looking for.

I also got told something different about worming babies....
I think I probably said something about this in an earlier post.. about "a know it all". I do not mind some helpful advice but geeeshhh someone that tells me i am doing it all wrong and has an attitude with that to boot... yea right... LOL
So, I want to ask you people, what do you do about worming your kids??? What age do you first worm and how much do you give???
I want to be able to show this to the "know it all" with some comparison to mine.
Well, I am looking for some good ones... hoping to hear from you.!

[neehifarm]

As for the Water, NEVER heard such a silly thing. All living animals need water...our bodies are always searching for a water source, so how would it be possible otherwise to provide it?!
I worm my babies when they hit 8 weeks old, then every three months after.

[mygoat]

My babies start drinking water very early. I would never deprive any age animal from water, unless there was a very good reason to do so!

[ozark_jewels]

My kids have water available to them as soon as they go in the big kid pen which is around 1 week of age. The sooner they have it, the sooner they start using it, same for feed. What I have heard is that you do not want to feed kids water in *bottles* like you do milk.

If they are early kids and the weather is cold, I don't worm till they reach 3 months or weaning. If its warm, or wet weather, they get wormed as early as a month of age.

[pookshollow]

The only thing I can come up with is maybe they were told to pull the water bucket when the doe is kidding (so the kids don't end up being born into and drowning in the bucket) and then extrapolated that to mean that kids shouldn't have access to water. Although how you are supposed to water the doe without letting the kids at it . . . I dunno!

[Sher]

Mine get water from the get go..as soon as they want it they can have it. I don't worm for at least three months. That's because all my boys and a few girls will be meat at that age and the customers would like it without. That being said..if something happens..weather/stress etc..I'd worm if I had to and hold the kids for a while longer.

I think maybe pookshallow is on to something. I have heard of babies drowning when getting into the water bucket..and it usually is at birthing. So maybe that's what they meant.

[goatkid]

My babies are always allowed to have water in their goat pens. When I have newborns in rubbermaid totes in the house, I don't put buckets in the totes, but the kids don't stay in there long and are drinking lots of milk then. Once they are 5-7 days old, they go into the baby pen and have a bucket of water. Actually, the house babies do have access to water as I allow them playtime out of the totes and there is always a large bowl of water available for the cats and dogs.
What I've heard is to remove the bucket of water from the kidding pen when the doe goes into labor so the kids don't fall into the bucket being born. I also don't feed water from a bottle except if I'm concerned about dehydration.

[Sweet Goats]

I think you might of misunderstood someone. I always have my water buckets high so the mom does not "drop" a kid in the water. I have a friend that a mom dropped a lamb in the bucket. Also the same one had a baby fall in the bucket. The bucket was one of those 2 gallon ones. I leave my water up high for just the mom for about a week they it goes down.
As for deworming. I do it totally different then most. I don't deworm them until the fall, and the spring. I will do a fecal float and if that say they need to be dewormed then I do it. I have NEVER had a problem with the way I do it. BUT it all depends on where you live.

[goatlover270]

Hey and good evening to all. I just wanted to make sure that I heard this person correctly and it didn't have something to do with drowning. She said that no, it was due to causing problems with the baby, diahrhea and something else she said. She simply stated that baby goats shouldn't have water until they are weaned. I said Ooookkkkaaaayyy and that i have asked about this on here. So I am glad I have this straight. I am going to continue having water available to my nannys and kids as I always have done.
Thanks and God Bless each of you.