They are generally not a problem to raise, but they can become a PITA when they are fully grown. Are you looking to keep it as a pet or do you want to raise it for the meat? If you want to keep it for a pet, be prepared that once it's fully grown they can be quite boisterous and if you have small kids they will knock them over. If it is 2kws old already, you wont have to keep up the 4hrly feeding. When we have poddys, by 3wks old thy are only being fed milk 3 times a day and they have water the rest of the time. By 4 weeks they are able to eat grass or if you want to you can buy some calf pellets to feed them as well for a bit of dry feed. It is important that you give a mix of green and dry feed as eating only one or the other isn't ideal. Too much green feed can make them scour (runny poo) which is a god-awful mess. If you do move to town, then you may have some issues with the smell affecting neighbours and you will have to clean up the poo so it doesn't get into the waterways when it rains. Oh and they will eat your garden plants so you may have to keep it in an area where it can't hurt your garden.
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