Baby Alaska is being bottle fed.

Alaska Star is having a hard time eating from his mother.  Ebony must sense that he is not as healthy as her other kids because if she realizes he is trying to nurse she will kick him away. 

This is frustrating to us but I realize animals do it to benefit the kids that have the best chances, which are his two other siblings.  Alaska is so small, easily the smallest goat born on the farm this year, so it is funny how we called him Alaska- the largest state.   

Luckily our farm is not a nature movie where you have to watch helplessly as the poor reject starves.  Alaska is getting star treatment on the bottle, filled with Ebony's fresh milk.   Ebony produces a good amount of milk and will stand still most the time while we milk her, so this arrangement is working fine.   Hopefully when Alaska is stronger and more able to stand his ground we can nudge him back on his mamma.