I messed up big time.

[Kshobbit]

My Boer cross doe kidded with twin does. She was the one doe I was letting raise her kids as I wanted meat kids. Last year she had a huge buck kid from the same breeding. Long story shortened, she kidded with a huge udder with huge teats. I went in and got the white doeling to nurse but the black doeling fought my every attempt to help her to nurse. I foolishly thought she was nursing the doe. I found the black doeling flat on the floor cold and barely breathing. Despite all my efforts she died and I brought the other doeling in and she took to the bottle like she was hungry..duh...Can't believe I was so stupid!
She is the most adorable kid I have ever bottle fed. I have a supply of frozen goat milk and now I have a reason for saving all of it! She has bonded with the dogs and the cats love her too. She either sleeps under the computer desk (she is here now) or under the printer desk that is next to the computer. Occasionally she sleeps with the dog pack! She goes outside with them now and climbs the steps back into the porch and through the doggy door! She is 8days old.
What am I to do?

[farmmom]

So sorry you lost the one! i hope the other does well. I'd love to see a pick of her sleeping with the dogs and cats. Too cute!

[Donna1982]

I am so sorry you lost one but at least you saved the other one. I miss having bottle babies in the house. :-D

[Alice In TX/MO]

What are you to do about what? Sounds like there's not a problem now. Just get her house trained, and you're good.

[Oat Bucket Farm]

So sorry you lost the one. But it sounds like your problems with the white one are solved...oh wait, you wanted a meat baby. Hmmm, sounds like you have a new house pet now

[Slugmar]

I'm sorry for your loss, this kidding season I have become an expert on warming babies up and getting some food back into them and trying to get them back on to there mom's. It has been touch and go but only lost the one that died at birth with an excessive parrott mouth.

[CarolT]

I'd raise her to raise my meat goats. Sounds like your doe isn't too good of a mother Did she manage to raise the one last year or did you bottle raise it, too?

[goatlady]

Sounds to me like the nanny had way too big teats for the kids to be able to latch onto or they were so swollen they were tender and mom would not stand still for nursing. When I have run into that I just hand milk out until the teats are smaller then put the kids on and let them nurse. They need that colostrum from the first few days of lactation of the nanny.

[Kshobbit]

Yes I have been raising goats for many years now. I thought the "newbies' would be heartened to hear that the old gals can miss the obvious too.
Alice, I was wondering if I could house train this goat? I have had lots of bottle babes but never had one that was so captivating.
I was heart broken over losing the other baby. I know it was my fault as I could have saved her. It hurts to realize she could be bouncing around the house too. There were a lot of "shoulda, coulda, woulda" going on here as I was going to bring them in the night before and didn't.

[Pony]

Kshobbit, please don't be so hard on yourself. Stuff happens, even to well-seasoned goat breeders like you.

In the meantime - I want to see how housebreaking goes for you!

[Alice In TX/MO]

Goats are so incredibly smart, she may figure out the housebreaking by watching the dogs, but the problem is really going to be climbing. We had a ND buckling in the house until he started dancing on the dining table.