What age do you guy's seperate kid's for the night??

creeklady2000 · #1 02/26/12, 02:58 PM

At What age do you guy's seperate your kid's at night so that you can have the milk in the am? And then let mom have the kid's during the day??? I was thinking a month old, this is the first year i am trying it this way before i have always bottle fed kid's or milked does after they were weaned

GoldenWood Farm · #2 02/26/12, 03:03 PM

I have always felt most comfortable doing it at a month old. My friend and goat mentor started at a month also. My thinking behind this is by this age they are starting to nibble/eat other stuff and are old enough to regulate their own heat better without needed constant milk in their tummies.

Justine

rootsandwings · #3 02/26/12, 03:59 PM

I start at two weeks, but I keep "night" to 8 hours and keep an eye on their weight. The little ones I have right now are on target to have doubled their birthweight before then.

bluefish · #4 02/26/12, 04:33 PM

I do mine at 1-2 weeks old, depending on how they are doing. BUT I don't kid til late May, so the weather is much nicer.

creeklady2000 · #5 02/26/12, 05:23 PM

ok mine are 3 week's old right now and are starting to eat grain with mom, and nibble on hay i thought iwould wait till they are 4 week's to be safe then i could let them go a little longer than 8 hour's we were getting milk off of the one side the kid's were not useing, but went out today to get milk and they found it!!! so no milk for us till i start seperating them.