Pet-Ag Goat’s Milk Esbilac Powder - 12 oz - Powdered Puppy Formula with Prebiotics, Probiotics & Vitamins for Puppies Newborn to Six Weeks Old - For Sensitive Digestive Systems

This is a great product, but a bit pricy. My main concern is the expiration date is up in two months.

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.

This was purchased in case we needed to bottle feed our newborn puppies. Thank goodness they're all healthy and strong. Poor hard working mama dog is getting huge benefits from adding this to her bowl of morning milk! What she eats and drinks goes to the nursing puppies, so all is good!

I have a litter of 8 Australian Shepherds, just turned 2 weeks old. Momma’s been great but I just felt she was not producing enough milk, so I purchased this milk replacer to feed between mom once or twice a day to throw in some extra calories. The puppies rave over this milk replacer, so much so they took to the bottles as soon as it was offered. I’m skeptical of all milk replacers as moms milk is the best milk but esbilac I do trust over others, same for petag’s KMR for kittens. I haven’t noticed any upset tummies, the puppies are satisfied if not begging for more and still using the bathroom well. Not all puppies do well on milk replacers but this was a success and I would recommend.

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My puppy loves this. I prepared the solution in warm water as recommended let it cool down and fed my pup. I did not see any issues in passing poop or diarrhea as goat milk has generally less lactose and is more probiotic.But do check with the vet. it is very high in sugar (not added) as a natural (sugarlike) compound and should only be given as a treat once in a while. I decided to stop using it and opted for Goat milk kefir as an alternative treat, less hassle of mixing and seems more useful and nutritious. Mind it you cannot return grocery products to Amazon.If you opt to purchase, I feel quantity is small for the price.

Have used this product to successfully raise injured/orphaned squirrels for two years now. All my baby squirrels have thrived nutritionally being fed this. GREAT ALTERNATIVE when momma's milk wasn't an option.

I have used GME for years to supplement my bitches and to start the weaning process. The bitches and puppies really take to it. It is invaluable when a mother's milk does not come in right away and the pups need sustenance. Recently I had to use it for a litter of 4 who did not have a mother to nurse them. We tube fed them for a week and then put them on a bottle. They thrived on GME. The puppy bottles do not work for our West Highland White Terrier puppies. We used preemie human bottles with silicone nipples. They worked great. No hesitation of the pups to latch on and suck. (Look at your bitch's engorged nipples. They are much closer in size to the preemie nipples than to the tiny hard rubber nipples of a pet bottle. )