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11-16-2017, 06:45 PM
Make sure to check the Saanen's hooves and pasterns. Saanens are big, leggy, and beautiful but they are notorious for having bad feet. This is something breeders are working to improve so many of them are just fine, but you definitely want to watch out for foot problems.
Dam-raised kids are nearly always a lot bigger than bottle-raised. The bottle kids eventually catch up, but the dam-raised babies get that early growth. There are usually fewer health problems with dam-raised kids as well, and I personally think the mother-kid bond is very important. We spend a lot of time with our babies during those few months before they are weaned, so by the time they leave to their new homes they are very friendly and sociable with people. We'll even bring the brand new babies into the house to watch movies with us at night for the first 2-3 weeks. Then they get too big and rambunctious to play indoors so we start taking them for hikes with us.
Dam-raised kids are nearly always a lot bigger than bottle-raised. The bottle kids eventually catch up, but the dam-raised babies get that early growth. There are usually fewer health problems with dam-raised kids as well, and I personally think the mother-kid bond is very important. We spend a lot of time with our babies during those few months before they are weaned, so by the time they leave to their new homes they are very friendly and sociable with people. We'll even bring the brand new babies into the house to watch movies with us at night for the first 2-3 weeks. Then they get too big and rambunctious to play indoors so we start taking them for hikes with us.