Thanks for responding. I will answer your questions and hope some others join the conversation. I do think they need milk longer than two weeks. I know all my kits are nursing well into 6-8 weeks if not longer. I have been breeding for a while, but this is the first quad litter that I have had to rotate. My last quad litter didn't fight over milk and I just supplemented to help mom out. But here we go with some more info...
1. Kits have constant access to hay and pellets and also drink from a water bottle.
2. They eat the hay and pellets, but I grind the pellets up adding dried goats milk and baby rice cereal (JAGS mix) and they also eat that in addition to being with mom for 4 hours.
3. I sexed the kits when they were about 3 hours old. There are 3 girls and a boy. I do know the male needs to come out of the girls cage when ready to leave mom...actually all the kits have found homes so that is not an issue.
4. I did 2 hour rotations for week 1 and 2 and then 4 hour rotations for week 3 and 4. I am starting my fifth week today.
I was planning on finishing up the 4 hour rotations at the end of this week and go to 6 hours because the kits still need time with their mom even if they are mostly on regular food, but not sure if it would be OK to move them to 6 hours this soon or if I should wait longer. I am also hand feeding the kits that are away from mom, and all of them take the milk eagerly so they seem to need it, but also I know I need to start weaning them as mom would do. They just turned 4 weeks yesterday.