Kid won’t take bottle

Well what all ways have you tried so far?

A few different ways.
One human bottles with lamb nipples or like the above picture with a liter or 20oz pop bottle and the red yellow nipple.
Just depends on the kid. I Normally would use the finger in mouth getting them to suck on my finger and then leading the bottle nipple into place of finger. (That's also my finger trick to teat for confused kids getting them on their mom for the first time.)

If they still don't want the nipple use a finger get them sucking and have a small syringe if the does milk. While they suck squirt in a little milk (not too much just enough for taste on finger). Do this several times and then try to finger to nipple trick again. I have never not had a kid pick up on this. I have Nubians though so sometimes the larger lamb nipples work better than the smaller red yellow ones.

Good luck!

Ugh this goat will be the death of me. He is 72 hours old. I took him from mom at 30 hrs. He’s been with me longer but still wants mom! I’ve tried Prichard nipples and lambar nipples. I’ve tried cutting the Prichard nipples in a couple different ways. I’ve tried covering his eyes. I’ve tried taking him out to mom and sneaking a nipple under her. He won’t even suck on my finger. I thought maybe he had an issue sucking but took him to mom and he had no trouble at all. I tried not offering him anything for 12 hours and then trying again.

He will let me keep the nipple in his mouth and he swallows what comes out. But he only does this sometimes and not for long. So he has gotten an ounce here and there this way. I also let him eat off mom once but just a tiny bit while it tried to stick the nipple in his mouth. He has lost weight. I weighed him within the first couple hours with mom. He was 3.9lbs and now he is 3.6lbs. He’s not lethargic but he just stands and screams all the time. I know he’s hungry. Whenever he has the chance he runs in other rooms, I assume looking for his mom. Any advice please?? I’ve never had one be so stubborn so early on.

We did it! He finally took the bottle today!

So the plan I had above did not work at all! The kid was so squirmy that I couldn’t keep his eyes closed and had zero control over him. It was a struggle to get under mom and try to give him the nipple and he was not fooled one bit. The fact that moms teat was inches away made it even more undesirable. Lastly, it just stressed mom our way too much. It’s hard taking kids away in the first place but to do it over and over again was just cruel.

So this is what I did do, hopefully something here will be of help to the next person with a troublesome kid;
1. I did let him nurse off of mom just a couple times just so that I knew he wasn’t starving.
2. I started spending more time with that kid one on one. Petting him, letting him run around and jump on me, wiping his bum with a wet paper towel simulating mom, and letting him fall asleep on my lap. I just wanted him to feel more like I was the person taking care of him and not the person who just kept bothering him and trying to stick something in his mouth.
3. When it was time to feed I would take him out and let him be with me while I feed the other kids, in between each kid, I would try to feed him. When he started squirming to try to get away, I’d let him go and get another kid to feed. But then I would go back to him in between each one so he had a lot of chances to eat at each feeding.
4. I wore my milking clothes which smell like goat. Instead of picking him up, I’d get down on my knees and lean my chest forward so he could get under me. I’d lead him there while whipping his behind with the wet paper towel. Eventually he would start to bump me and nibble on my clothes.
5. When he did that I would put the nipple in his mouth. He started fighting me less and less and I was able to keep the nipple there and just let it drain into his mouth. I found out that the lambar nipples were much easier to keep still in his mouth.
6. He got really good at this routine and I was getting about an ounce or two into him 6 or 7 times a day but he still wasn’t sucking so this afternoon after I fed him I gave him some B complex paste. Three hours later, at the next feeding, it was like magic. He started sucking and went crazy over the bottle.

I think the B complex was what really helped but I do think the other prep work was important and I hope that something I learned will help someone else .