Tbone & Chuck eating their grain
The boys are doing GREAT!!!! They are staying super healthy and growing really well. Weaning is going alot easier than I thought. This week they are still getting 1 full bottle in the morning which is a 1/2 gallon of milk. Then in the evening they are only getting 1/2 of a bottle which is 1 quart of milk.
After they finish their bottles they get to eat as much sweet feed grain as they would like. At first it was just a little bit but now that they have a taste for it they are starting to eat more.
The first few days were hysterical. I would put two of the goats on the milking stands for them to eat and then go into the pasture to feed the cows. Well once the other goats that were still in the pasture got a smell of the sweet feed in the bucket they would not leave me alone and it was becoming a struggle to keep them away.
Well, I finally figured out what to do. I put all the goats in the barn and locked the door that goes out to the pasture. Chuck and Tbone are out in the pasture and I go and feed them their bottles and then they eat their feed from the buckets that I hang on the fence, shown in the picture above. It works out great. They can eat without being bothered and I don't have to stand their the whole time and can get the other goats fed.
Tbone eating some grain
Chuck posing for the picture, LOL
Hailey standing next to the calves to show you how much they have grown.
Next week we will be reducing the morning bottle to half, check back and see how they do.
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