WANTED to buy: PACK Goats...not kids 2.5+ to 4 years old (Utah)

[Nanno]

Don't be too hung up on the whole bottle raised thing. I'm starting to learn that time spent with the kids when young is more important than whether or not they were actually fed with a bottle. My most stand-offish, unbonded goat is Nibbles, and she's the only one that was bottle raised from birth. She's the last to come when called, the first to go when the treats stop, and the least likely to respond to her name even though she probably knows it better than all the others. My friends who bottle raise their babies and who warned me that mine would be unfriendly if dam raised have had to shut up because my kids are every bit as personable and bonded as theirs. I think it comes down to whether their owners played with them and befriended them as babies more than who actually nursed them.