| Winter time, pregnant does and milking does. I make a special grain mix for my girls and they do very well on it. I have found that with this grain mixture i have never had a doe with milk fever. here is the mixture: 3~~50lb. Bags of 13% live stock grain. with a touch of molasses not enough to make it stick together. 1~~50lb. Bag of black oil sunflower seeds 1~~50lb. Bag of Animax or Calf Mana will do they are basically the same thing. 1~~50lb. Bag of rolled barley 6 to 7 ~~~1lb. Bags of split peas (from grocery store.) sometimes I also add 1~~50 lb. Bag of alfalfa pellets too. i also add one hand full of Wheat bran to each pan of grain daily. I feed 2 cubes hay 2 times a day per adult goat. for youngsters i feed 1 cube of hay 2 times a day. To me a cube is 4 to 5 inches thick x width of bail. The Hay I use for my goats is the Greenest Grass Hay I can get. It has to be very visibly green. I don't feed Alfalfa to my goats they have never thrived on it no matter how much i feed it to them plus they waist it more than they do the grass hay. Some breeders feed Alfalfa to their goats with no problems. I only give Alfalfa pellets in the winter for it is considered a hot feed. My goats have free range of our property during the day when I am home (which is most of the time). At night I lock them in their stalls. I used to fence my goats but most of my goats are fence jumpers and they don't usually take off to the neighbors property any more since I found homes for the instigators of that.as they free range my goats are happy and can eat the brush and whatever they want around our place. (I don't have any poisonous plants here for them to eat.) I do have a guard dog for the goats and our property. He is well trained in chasing off predators. Wich is needed with goats to be happy and stress free. |



