Rearing goat kids away from their dams 1. A survey to understand rearing methods

•Many goat kids are reared away from their dams on artificial milk feeding systems.•The milk feeding and weaning stages are high-risk periods for health and welfare.•Differing practices in smaller-scalebottle-fedversuslarger-scalead-libsystems.•Number of kids reared affects management and reflects different welfare challenges.•Future research should be targeted at identifying best practices for kid welfare.