S12 MODERN MILK GOATS 



or recovers within twenty-four hours. If it recovers, it 

 will be more delicate than other kids for a time, and must 

 be handled with especial care. 



In all other cases of scours in kids the trouble is 

 caused by lack of care in handling the little ones. Some 

 of the mistakes that lead to this trouble are : chill caused 

 by letting the kid outside in cold or damp weather, let- 

 ting it sleep on damp or insufficient bedding, lack of 

 drainage in its box or pen. Some mistakes in feeding 

 that lead to the same result are: overfeeding, always 

 the result of irregular feeding, or too long intervals be- 

 tween the feeds, so causing the kid to become so hungry 

 that it overfeeds ; drinking too rapidly, milk at too low a 

 temperature, utensils not properly sterilized, milk not 

 fresh, or a change made too suddenly from goat milk to 

 cow milk or milk substitutes. Chill after milk or the 

 feeding of green stuff directly after the milk leads to the 

 same result. 



If kids are kept always dry and warm, are fed clean, 

 sweet goat milk at the intervals indicated in Chapter 

 XII, in clean utensils, and suck the milk through a 

 nipple, and are kept in their pens with dry hay only for 

 an hour after the milk feed, so handled they can be given 

 all the milk they want, and it is practically certain that 

 no case of scours will result. Pan feeding and the feed- 

 ing of cow milk and gruel are both sometimes necessary. 



