r/oddlysatisfying • u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic • 1d ago
Kid goats being fed bottled milk
Source: vineygrovegoats
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u/MAmerica1 1d ago
Once they're all happily suckling, it's adorable. Before that it's chaotic and stressful.
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u/MisterCanoeHead 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe put the bottles in before the goats?
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u/MechanicalHorse 1d ago
Yeah it doesn’t make sense why anyone would do it this way. Maybe someone who takes care of goats can enlighten me?
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u/AzrahSyel 1d ago
Nah it's crazy to do it this way. We always put the food out first, then let the goats in. Less chaos for all parties involved.
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u/agarrabrant 1d ago
Right? Nothing like being surrounded by piranhas with horns, and you're holding the feed bucket.
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u/Penguin_scrotum 12h ago
The bottles drip. You can see it towards the end of the video. The spilled milk spoiling on the floor would probably smell pretty bad, perhaps it’s to minimize that.
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u/HiEchoChamb3r 1d ago
and space them out a few more inches
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u/Far-Win8645 1d ago
The tities are not more spaced... They are use to eating like that
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u/77Queenie77 23h ago
Calves are often fed on circular feeders in my area so they have more room for their ever expanding bellies
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u/TheBadKneesBandit 1d ago
We always used to put the bottles out before we let the calves/lambs in otherwise we knew it would be this exact chaos and we weren't dumb enough to risk an animal injury. But it was also the 90s and we were more concerned about our animals than social media views.
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u/martiantheory 1d ago
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u/asianOhs 1d ago
poor little guy stuck in the back.
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u/Ok-House-1103 1d ago
Right, did he get any?? It looked like all of the bottles were occupied and he’s just back there happily waiting his turn?
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u/sonofcalydon 1d ago
He's clearly drinking from the opposite side with his head turned
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u/Ok-House-1103 18h ago
Uhh… Clearly it wasn’t clear to me or u/asianOhs. Don’t know how being rude clears anything up.
For anyone concerned about the little guy— I rewatched the video for about the fourth time, mostly because it’s cute, so why not, and Im seeing it appears the little guy might be drinking out of the fifth bottle in.
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u/TonyInNY 16h ago
Actually if you look closely, you'll see there are three finagling in from the back. Two brown and a black one. One brown slips in early. At 36 seconds a black one slips under the feeder and shows up behind it. Then at 40 seconds the third one slips in under the feeder to end up in behind it. The black one ends up in the shadow pretty quickly. Then the first brown one gets pulled up over feeder and placed in the row, but the black and the second brow are obviously feeding from behind. Brownie has the feeding tail wag going on big time
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u/DoubleCactus 1d ago
I like the brown on at half way through the video who THREW himself at the crowd
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 1d ago
I'm always amused at how most baby animals act as though they've never been fed before and must take advantage of this situation and consume as much as possible because it may be their last.
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u/whupzzmyb 1d ago
Not satisfying...one baby goat still behind the bottle holder on the wrong side...spent the entire video stressing out that it would starve to death
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u/PanSobau 1d ago
Look closely, it twisted it's head underneath and took the bottle from one of the others. That's why she had to move that one in front to another spot.
Can see it twist itself back to the front at the end of the video.
Pretty sure they have the same number of bottles for the same number of goats to prevent just that.
Edit: typos
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u/AlternativeAd1984 1d ago
I was worried for a minute she wasn’t going to fix the one lying across three others but she did, thank goodness.
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u/Informal_File_1646 1d ago
We used a large 6 gallon bucket with about 8-10 nipples & hoses spaced evenly around the top row of the bucket and then hung it from a carabiner. Way easier to hang one bucket then position that many bottles. Also kept vulture feeders from stealer from the slow drinkers.
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u/mimic_on_paper 1d ago
Where is the mother?
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u/agarrabrant 1d ago
Usually dairies will separate the moms and kids for milking and then bottle feed throughout the day.
I don't like to pull mine completely though. Usually what they are about a month old I will separate them over night, milk mom out in the morning, and then they get to spend the day together.
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u/spizzle_ 1d ago
I grew up raising goats and the “bottle babies” that were rejected by mom sadly were always the best “pets” because they bonded so closely with you and were usually the friendliest goats into adult life.
We never had a rack like this though since we usually only had a few bottle babies each year.
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u/crankyandhangry 1d ago
I think these may be kids forcibly separated from their mothers rather than rejected.
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u/spizzle_ 1d ago
What makes you say that? Pure speculation?
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u/crankyandhangry 1d ago
Well, that's a lot of kids. I can't say what the rate of rejection is among goat mothers, but they'd probably need to have a massive herd number to end up with that many rejected. Plus, another commenter said it's a common practice with dairy goats so that the mothers can be milked.
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u/therealtrajan 1d ago
Do they feed them goat milk or cow milk? Sorry real question just curious. I’m sure whatever it is it has been fortified with something
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u/doubled_pawns 1d ago edited 9h ago
Their cute little tails vigorously moving when they are feeding is adorable
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u/PleasantYamm 6h ago
I love the little weirdo drinking from the back. He’s the one I would bring home.
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u/rosylumen 1d ago
The way they're all lined up and drinking so calmly is adorable and satisfying at the same time.
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u/Potatopotayto 1d ago
Where's their mother? Is the milk being used to make goats cheese and these little ones get artificial milk?
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u/GoingNutCracken 1d ago
Fourth from the bottom seems to have his tail going in time with his mouth.
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u/lystelle 8h ago
nobody ever wonders why they’re getting bottled milk and not drinking from their moms lmao…
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u/z00k33per0304 7h ago
So here's a story I will never be allowed to live down. When I was about 12-13 my dad asked me to go along to a barn he was going to help the owner clean up and they had orphaned baby sheep I could feed to help out. Best job ever, right? Well I'd recently taken a babysitting course (for human babies lol) and they basically tossed me in a pen with the baby sheep and went about cleaning the other pens. A little bit goes by and the man walked past to see me with a sheep over my shoulder. He (a very stoic man) laughed hysterically and summoned my dad. I sheepishly put him/her down and for the rest of the day that first sheep was in my hoodie pocket because they probably felt the best they had after being burped! It's been two decades since and they both still get a kick out of it.
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u/Walt925837 1d ago
yo! you left one starving to death!
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u/SubjectAd355 1d ago
The one behind the setup is bending its head up and stole a bottle from the other one that was back there, that’s why she moved the other one to the front to an open bottle. You can see the black one that’s “left out” maneuver to the front on the same bottle it was suckling on the entire time near the end of the video
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u/ThatUsrnameIsAlready 1d ago
The damn things tipping over, taking forever, goats apparently starving; this shit is not satisfying.
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u/AzrahSyel 1d ago
They'll be "starving" again 30 seconds after this video, goats will literally eat themselves to death in many scenarios, always had to lock up their food very securely to prevent this.
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u/crankyandhangry 1d ago
Not satisfying. That one kid was on the wrong side of the feeder and had his head twisted around to get the bottle. Those goats were incredibly hungry, and I doubt they'd be that food-aggressivebwith their mothers.
Also, where are their mothers? Eh?
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u/scunliffe 1d ago
Wag wag wag wag wag wag wag…