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I don't normally bottle feed, I leave mine on the doe until they wean and I milk once a day for the entire time. However, I had a doe that kidded with twin does and would have nothing to do with them so I had to bottle feed. I kept one and gave the other to my aunt, I told her I would give her milk to feed it but she thought she knew more. Anyway, the doe I kept and fed from my dairy does milk thrived! She has passed her 1/2 brother in size. The one my aunt took lived only 3 weeks to a month and never really thrived. Both goats got the same colostrum and the same amount because I kept them both for 4 days. As long as the one was on goats milk she did fine but after being changed to replacer she withered and died, my aunt even took her to the vet but it didn't help.