Things You'll Need
- Raspberry leaves
- Pestle and mortar
- Water
- Syringe
- Slippery elm bark
- 1/4 cup honey
Instructions
Crush raspberry leaves in to a fine powder with a pestle and mortar. Dried raspberry leaves will crumble easily. Collect 8 tbsp. of the crushed leaves to use for in a dosage ball or, alternatively, mix the leaves with water or the mother's milk to feed to the kid using a syringe.
Add the crushed raspberry leaves to 4 tbsp. of slippery elm bark, which has also been crushed to form a powder. Also add a 1/4 cup of honey and mix together.
Roll the mixture into 16 evenly sized dosage balls. This can be fed directly to an adult goat; but to feed a kid break, it down into smaller pieces.
Offer a piece of one of the dosage balls to the baby goat. If it does not show any interest in eating the ball insert it into the goat's mouth. Most goats and kids enjoy the taste of the dosage balls once they try them. If the goat spits the ball out insert it further back into the kid's mouth.