Other adult goat in a herd will let a baby climb on them. Mother goats let their babies jump and climb on them. They have to use their mouths because they have no hands. Their world" with their mouths just like human babies do Also, when looking for a kid, keep in mind that they can squeeze into very small places (the smaller the better as far as they are concerned). It is a good idea to put very brightly colored collars on young kid to help make them easier to find. I searched the entire property four times (and I have gotten pretty good at finding kids over the years). We have no idea where she disappeared to. Only once did I loose a kid over night, and I found her 24 hours later walking next to her mother. I have "lost" many a kid, to be found after hours of search in a brush pile or under some large object. The mother wanders off, grazing, and will have no idea where the kid is hiding. Over the years, I have found this is not always the case. You would think the mother would not loose her her kids, or at least be able to find her kids. Don't expect the mother to find the kids either. They love "caves" and holes and will surprise you how well they can hide. They instinctually craw into little hidey holes and will lay very quiet. They start eating solid food, the poops become brown.īaby goats are very good at getting themselves lost. Poops will stay yellow until the kid start eating solid food. The poop is cleaned off, especially, since it can dry on theirīutts and actually clog them up so they are poops anymore. Then,Īfter the kids start nursing the poops become yellow, sometimes The first few poops a kid will have are like black tar. They learn avoid the bigger goats and also to browse and be goats from the herd.
Bottle fed kids will bond and grow up with their like aged herd mates. If the kid is orphaned, he is put with kids his own age. If a mother rejects one kid and we have to bottle feed him, he still is left to live with his sibling and mother. The only kids brought in the house are kids that are so weak they must be tube fed. I let all kids, even bottle fed ones, live with the herd from day one I never bring them in the house to live. If you fill their belly up with water from a bottle, they have no reason to try nibbling on new foods or drinking water out of a bucket. If you get pizza all the time, why try broccoli? Bottle fed kids will not really start trying new foods unless you cut back on the bottle and offer these new foods.ĭo not bottle feed water it is counter productive. They will not learn to drink water as quickly either. Since they have no older goats to learn from, and they get a bottle whenever they are hungry, they will not want to try new things to eat. Bottle fed kids who are not raised with the herd will not learn to eat grain, hay or browse as quickly as herd raised kids (even if the herd raised kids are bottle fed). Kids learn from their mothers, other adults in the herd and from older kids.
Goats are goats, and they think and act like goats, and no other animal, but if you are unfamiliar with goats and how they think, you could think of goats brains as working kind of like a dogs, except they don't have the "I must please humans" thing that dogs have. Goats are very often not given credit for being the smart and loving creatures they actually are.
Goats are extremely intelligent and curious.
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