What is the average cost of a goat?

How much would it cost to bottle feed a goat kid for 2 months?

• how much would it cost to bottle feed a goat kid for 2 months? Thanks nothing mean.

• Answer:

  Well first off 7lbs isn't going to last too long. I buy mine by the 20kg bag and I think I figured it would do 2 goats for 8 weeks. 20kg here is $65 (Canada) I'm feeding Alpines, Lamanchas and Saanens. It is going to depend on the brand of replacer and the mixing instructions. These are the instructions on the brand I use. If it's the same as yours you can estimate based on this. It's Grober Kid Gro. For this, 300 grams of replacer mixes up with water to be 2L of milk. Daily Feeding Guide for Bottle feeding Kid Age mL of solution/feeding no. feeding/day Day 1-2 250 ( colostrum) 4 Day 3-5 300 3 Day 6-14 500 3 Week 3-6 800 2 Week 7 800 1 Week 8 500 1 Cut and pasting this info kind of sucks so here is the link for the website. The info is towards the bottom of the page. http://www.grobernutrition.com/kid/kid-gro/ *Whenever possible though, you should not use milk replacer. If you have a dairy near you ask if you can purchase some milk. It would be better to feed either actual goat milk or cows milk. If cows milk add corn syrup. Real milk beats replacer every time! Also factor in some grain and hay for the kids to be able to browse on. They start to nibble at about a week but don't eat much until about 4 weeks.