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Group
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Age
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Nutritional goals
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Pens
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Bottle-fed kids
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Day 1
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Feed colostrum to transfer antibodies on day 1.
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Very small pens with heat lamps and/or or heat mats.
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Day 2-7
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Feed milk for maintenance and growth
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Bucket-fed kids
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2nd-8th weeks
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Feed for maintenance and growth.
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Larger pens with heat lamps. Group together in numbers
that correspond to your bucket feeders.
If using a caprine bucket with
ten nipples, put ten babies in the pen.
If using lamb buckets with three nipples, put in groups of
9 and hang three buckets.
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Bucklings retained for breeding
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8th week - 7 mo. (breeding age)
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Feed for maintenance and growth
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House according to the pens you have available. See
stocking rates in the Building and Planning section of the website.
House males and females separately after 4 months to
prevent unwanted pregnancies.
House doelings
separate from adult does, and bucklings separate from adult bucks to avoid
injury, and to make sure they get enough to eat.
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7 mo.-1 yr
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Need extra during breeding season for stamina.
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Bucklings retained for meat sales
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week 8-selling age depending on market
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Feed for maintenance and growth
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Doelings
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week 8 to 7 mo. (breeding age)
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Feed for maintenance and growth.
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7 mo-1 yr.
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Breed when they reach at least 70 lbs. Feed for
maintenance, growth, and to support advancing pregnancy, especially in
last month.
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First birthing at one year (or more)
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Feed for maintenance, growth and lactation.
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Lactating Does
not pregnant
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1) Does who have birthed, but who have not been bred back
2)Does not being bred back at all (future cull
does) 3)Does who are being
allowed to “milk through.”
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Feed for maintenance and
lactation.
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Lactating Does
Pregnant through the third month
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Adult
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Feed for maintenance, lactation and to support fetal
growth
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Dry Does
Pregnant through the 4th month
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Adult
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Feed for maintenance and to support fetal growth
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Dry Does
Pregnant through the 5th month
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Feed for maintenance and to support fetal growth.
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Bucks
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Adult
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Feed for maintenance.
Extra for stamina during breeding season.
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Quarantine Pen(s)
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1) Does new to farm,
2) Sick does
3)Does with mastitis, who must be milked last
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Feed according to the needs of individual animals
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