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Old 03/30/08, 02:59 PM
 
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Post Getting a bottle baby to eat grain

We have a bottle baby, she was a triplet and she's doing great, but her brother and the rest of our babies are all eating grain and chewing on hay all the time. We have hay and grain in front of her all the time, but she doesn't touch them.
The rest of the kids are on thier mothers and running around with the rest of our goats, the bottle baby is at our house.

Will she just chew on it when she feels like it or is there something we could do to make it more paletable or more appealing to her?

Thanks for the help,
Julez
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Old 03/30/08, 03:36 PM
 
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Location: Montana
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Kids on their dams usually learn more quickly than bottle babies to eat hay and grain. Mine are that way, too. This year I have three dry yearlings in my baby pen to hopefully teach the bottle babies to eat solids. Just keep the hay in forn to your kid. She'll learn to eat it. They always do.
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