store bought goats milk

berrley · #1 04/14/10, 01:44 PM

What about using store bought goats milk (in the carton not the can) to bottle feed a kid when you don't have anything else available? I know it isn't very cost efficient , but If you've only got one kid to feed would it be worth doing? What do you think?

shiandpete.1 · #2 04/14/10, 02:02 PM

I think it is too expensive and a more cost efficient way is to buy vitamin d cows milk from the store for a fraction of the price.

Cyngbaeld · #3 04/14/10, 02:16 PM

Whole cow's milk will do fine.

springvalley · #4 04/14/10, 02:18 PM

Don`t buy store bought cows milk to feed any type animals, it is not worth feeding to them. Store bought milk has had everything good taken out of it. You would be better off finding a farm that might sell you milk, be it goat or cow milk.I would sell milk to you for your animals cheaper than I do for human consumption. Good luck, thanks Marc.

shiandpete.1 · #5 04/14/10, 03:55 PM

That is true Marc but plenty of us use Vitamin D on our bottle babies and they do just fine, healthy happy and sassy. It might not be possible for the OP to get fresh from the dairy milk nor at it be safe because of the transmission of TB Brucelosis, Johnes and possibley CAE if they buy from an infected dairy goat herd and don't pastureize. Also it might not be legal in the state where they live. Just my thoughts on that.

Pony · #6 04/14/10, 06:12 PM

SpringValley, I understand that you would advise folks to use fresh milk. While you have free access to it because you have Jersey cows, that's not necessarily the case for the rest of the world.

For my kids, I am using whole cow's milk from the store to supplement the doe's milk. Don't have anyone local who's selling raw, and even if they were, don't know that I'd trust them.

Sure, the optimal would be fresh milk, but we don't live in the best of all possible worlds.

I grew up on store-bought milk, and so did my children. Would it have been better to have fresh milk? Sure. But it's not possible for everyone, and yet, we all still seem to get along.

berrley · #7 04/14/10, 06:46 PM

Yes, I certainly agree with getting it fresh also, but I have no access to anything but store bought right now. In order to get it fresh I would have to buy a share which would include at least a $50 deposit, and I haven't found anyone less than 45 minutes away anyway. I was just thinking that the goats milk would be better for him than the cows and it would be worth paying a little bit more for it.

shiandpete.1 · #8 04/14/10, 06:58 PM

Berrely what state are you located in?

berrley · #9 04/14/10, 07:10 PM

Tennessee

Tallabred · #10 04/14/10, 09:05 PM

My doelings grew GREAT on store bought cows milk. I added a can of evaporated milk and a cup of buttermilk to a gallon. They grew just as fast as my dam raised babies.

KimM · #11 04/14/10, 10:22 PM

I have a couple bucklings (soon to be wethers) I'm bottle feeding this same recipe and they're growing like bad weeds.

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Originally Posted by Tallabred

My doelings grew GREAT on store bought cows milk. I added a can of evaporated milk and a cup of buttermilk to a gallon. They grew just as fast as my dam raised babies.