What do dairy babies usually weigh?

[DownHome]

I know there are lots of things to factor in, but what do they usually weigh? We have Obers and these two just seemed huge. They also seem to be growing by leaps and bounds. hee hee

I taped them when they were born and the girl was 7 and the boy was 8.

They were born Thurday around noon. I just taped them again and the boy is 12 and the girl is 10. I am following the feeding rules that I read, right now it is 4 x a day 12 oz at a time. sound right?

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[tioga12]

I've had kids that weighed as little as 4 lbs. (a triplet), and singletons that weighed over 12 lbs. at birth...usually with twins we get around 8-11 pound kids. They do grow extremely fast. I use a postal scale to weigh them after they are born; a weigh tape as they are growing. I don't normally measure them frequently when they're little, but I know they average out to gaining at least 2 lbs a week if not more.

12 oz. 4 times a day is what I'm giving my bottle babies too.

[DQ]

Its amazing how fast they grow!
I weighed mine at birth and had an 8.5 /9.5/ 8/10/7.5 lbers
weighed again at two weeks and....
the 8.5 and 9.5 both weighed 16lbs and some change
the 10 weighed 17 lbs
the others will not reach the two week mark for another 4 days but so far I'm coming in around 3-4lbs per week. It will probably slow as they get older but I'm hopeing not.

[Eunice]

My triplets weighed about 5 lbs. each this year. That was small for this doe. Her twins last year weighed ten pounds each. My biggest kid was a 14 pound doeling last year and her mom died because of the hard birthing. The doeling was upside down with her head tucked back. She was dry when I went in to help and never wiggled until I got her out. She blinked, sneezed and has been doing great. She weighs over 100 pounds now just short of one year old.

[LomahAcres]

Sounds right, just keep checking their weight every 2 - 4 weeks, you want to keep them growing 10lbs a month.

[cathleenc]

Storey's Guide to Dairy Goats says to shoot for 38 lbs at 3 months. That same book also feeds much less milk to the kids.

I have 2 alpine/toggenburg crosses, a doeling and a wether. At 6 weeks the wether weighs 27 lbs and the doeling 24 lbs.

[DownHome]

Thanks for all the input. It sounds like my two little ones are right on track then. That is good to know. Man they still look huge though

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[tioga12]

It is amazing...
Last year my kids were all over 100 pounds by breeding time (about 6 months). The does stayed with the dams up until then.