PetAg Goat's Milk Esbilac Powder 12oz

Great substitute for mamas milk for puppies.

Delivery on time, satisfied!

We had 8 Border Collie pups who were getting pretty big for their poor mom to handle, and were always hungry! Goat's milk in the carton is often frozen first and it curdles, plus it is pretty pricey...This worked great, mixed up easily with a silicone whisk and lukewarm water and they loved it, no upset tummies ever. Great for those midnight feedings when Dam just wasn't up to sticking it out long enough to keep them content enough to go back to sleep. Also used it for weaning to kibble, in the beginning, I added about 50/50 to puppy kibble (pre-mixed w/lukewarm water 1st) and let sit for about 20 min., which obviously softened the kibble to an oatmeal-like consistency, which again, they loved. Gradually reduced both ratio of goats powder to liquid while also removing liquid ratio to kibble until they were on just kibble and water (always offer water once they are walking on their own anyway) All 8 pups were strong and healthy throughout, and the Vet ck-up at 7weeks showed them all well above-average in development. Would highly recommend.

It did the job for the babies

Our Miniature Aussie had a huge litter, 10 pups including the usual runt at 4 oz, and couldn't supply enough milk for them. We tried both the standard Esbilac formula (pre-mixed liquid) and this goat's milk powder, and they by far seemed to prefer the goat's milk. They fought and fussed, often resisting the Esbilac liquid, but took the goat's milk eagerly for the most part.I found it pretty easy to mix up using warm distilled water and a wire whisk (applied somewhat vigorously) to get a mix with no lumps.One note: all of the various baby/pet bottles were a bust for us. For some reason the manufacturers DO NOT PIERCE THE DAMN NIPPLES - maybe because it's almost impossible to do successfully to get them to flow properly. Good luck doing it yourself! They either don't flow or they flood and try to drown the babies. If you want hours of frustration and panic because you can't feed hungry pups (or whatever), go ahead and waste money on the little bottles and (unpierced) rubber nipples. We had all of our success with syringes - tiny 1 cc units when the pups were tiny, then 3cc units, and finally the larger irrigation syringes with the longer, curved tips, which worked great after snipping the tips just a bit shorter.Our little runt is now up to eight pounds and on solid food, and thriving. We lost some of the pups while fighting bad bottles and some other issues, but the rest are happy, healthy, playful pups.