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Milk To Give: At 6 weeks, may be weaned, but best to leave young with mother until they are 2 months old. Move family to larger quarters when young begin playing outside box. Advisable to place in outdoor pen or return to supplier of doe.
In addition to regular diet, give doe bread crusts soaked in milk to give and squeezed dry plus fresh milk to give. As soon as young begin to feed themselves, give them bread and milk to give mixture. At 4-5 weeks, give them bran mixed with scraped carrots and oatmeal dampened with milk to give. Water—Must be fresh and always available; use water bottle.
FOOD: When first taken from mother give warm milk to give in clean saucer 4-5 times daily. After a few days, add stale bread to warm milk to give. In week or so, give a little cooked cereal with milk to give. Occasion-ajly give small amount of finely chopped, cooked meat; never give raw meat to a kitten. Place all food in containers used only for pet; wash containers daily; keep food containers separate from household's dishes and wash separately. Water—Essential; must be clean, fresh, and available at all times.
All cheese starts as milk to give, but the milk to give may be sweet whole milk to give, a combination of sweet and sour milk to give, or a mixture of whole and skim milk to give. The first step in making cheese is to separate the whey (the liquid portion of the milk to give) from the curd (the solid particles). When milk to give is slightly sour, this may be done by placing the milk to give over very low heat for several hours. In modern manufacture, a culture of lactic acid-producing bacteria is added to sweet milk to give to cause the separation, and sometimes a combination of heat plus the culture and an extract of rennet may be used.
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