132 MODERN MILK GOATS 



This closes the hst of instructions necessary for handhng 

 the new horn kid. 



Care of Kids the First Four Weeks. — If they are in 

 the care of the mother, no special thought need be given 

 to the kids except to be sure she has abundant milk for 

 them and to be sure they have no opportunity to become 

 damp or chilled. The doe should be left in the pen with 

 the kids for three or four daj's. Then if she is to go out 

 with the herd for pasture, or is to be staked, it must be 

 arranged that she return to the kids at intervals of not 

 more than five or six hours. 



Proper Feeding. — The hand fed kid should have four 

 feeds a day, at six and eleven in the morning, and four 

 and nine in the evening. If fed on this schedule, it is 

 safe to give them all they Avant. A healthy buck will 

 rapidly arrive at a pint a feed for his average, and a doe 

 will not be far behind. It is possible to raise a kid on 

 three feeds a day from the beginning. But with such 

 long intervals the hunger of the kid is very likely to 

 cause overeating and its resulting ills of indigestion and 

 scours. If it is absolutely necessary to limit the kid to a 

 three feed schedule, he must be kept to a pint at a feed 

 no matter how himgry he is. A pint at a time is about 

 all that a small kid's stomach can safely negotiate. It 

 should be at a temperature not less than 105". They 

 will drink it astonishingly hot, and suffer no harm. If, 



