posted 5 years ago
I don't know enough to advise about "carrying on milking once the kids are weaned". What I do know is that baby goats are generally highly inquisitive and most of them love cuddles. If you go and sit in the pen quietly for some time each day, they will soon come and investigate you, clamber on you, chew your coat etc. I worked on a place where none of the goats were bottle fed, but most of the babies could not resist all coming and piling on any human who went and sat in the pens. They were like cats. Another place I worked we bottle fed huge numbers of kids and lambs as a visitor attraction, and those goats would come pelting out for their bottles but were not much interested in cuddles, once the milk was gone they legged it back home.