I prefer a minimum of 8 weeks of full milk for a bottle baby before weaning.
And even then the bottle baby must weigh at least 25 pounds or I will
continue to bottle feed. At weaning the bottle baby must be eating grass
and grain with gusto. I typically do batches of bottle babies so when the
I use a combo of Mark Wintermutes' Cold turkey and his weight
requirements (8 weeks and at least 25 lbs) and tapering, but I taper
by cutting out say, the afternoon meal first, then the nightly, and
then the morning meal. I don't dilute, but their last bottle will go
down from 16 oz to 8 oz in the