Best bedding/litter for bottle babies?

[HilltopDaisy]

Have 3 kids on a bottle, inside. What is the best bedding? These kids are peeing up a storm! Thanks.

[farmmom]

I only have one inside, but I'm using an old mattress pad that I can just pick up and throw in the wash. I tried newspaper with the twins before, and it was horrible. My doeling and housebroken herself and only goes on the mattress pad. She refuses to sleep on anything but the linoleum floor. I actually put the mattress pad down for her to sleep on.

[dragonchick]

We use towels that I pcked up at GoodWill to line the bottom of the crate, then put puppy pads on that. For the most part they are peeing on the puppy pad, although sometime they do miss and hit the towel. baby goats can pee more than any other animal I have been around.

[HilltopDaisy]

I'm finding that if I bottle them on a pee pee pad they will pee almost immediately, on the pad. My plan is shavings underneath a thick layer of hay, I think it will work very well.

[HilltopDaisy]

Well, I decided that it was worth bringing this thread back to life. I've just about potty trained these 3 little kids. They actually go pee almost immediately after eating, so it's been super-easy getting them to pee on the pee pads! Man I like it when something goes right!

[mary,tx]

When we have had babies inside, they go in a big Rubbermaid tub in the laundry room. When they get their bottles, they go outside, pee, then come back in. They'll still pee some in the bucket, but it helps to have everyone pee outside. As soon as they start climbing out, they go to the barn!

[Cannon_Farms]

I used my whelping pool with a fence around mine with the equine fresh pellets so that I could tell where the pee was. I used a kiddie pool with an xpen around it, the xpens alone woke to safely contain them. My second bottle baby was Little goat and she pretty much was housebroken except the berries, but kinda like dogs she was as soon as she woke up, ate, or a few moments into playing around.

[moonspinner]

I always say, it's far easier to house train a goat than a dog! Though doesn't quite apply to droppings.