How to get weight on my dairy girls ?

yes, but cold goats are in warm barns exposed to fecal matter

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De @ Udderly Southern Dairy Goats
we will be adding a new breed in the spring

Are you keeping each girl separate to monitor their individual feed needs? When you say "They will eat a whole bag of Alfalfa pellets" do you mean just your heavily producing thin does? Maybe it's a cost of doing business?

Milk costs money. At a gallon a day you should expect a feed bill and a lively one at that.


Here is what we give to the milkers and kids as their "grain". You will notice I use no sweet feed. I've found it upsets their tummy if your feeding enough to maintain them.

1 bag of 20% dairy ration. 50 lbs
1 bag of whole oats. 50Lbs
1 bag of whole corn 50Lds
1 bag of alfalfa pellets. 50Lbs

Mixing it two scoops at a time of each.
I use a 30 gallon garbage can to store it and 200 pounds just fills it.
Feeding I give one scoop at the stanchion twice a day. My scoop is about one gallon. I take the remainder after milking and put it into their feed bowl (It is the stall mounted type.) To this I add just a bit of beet pulp about a cup. They also get loose mineral as a top dressing. They get hay to where it builds up in the stall if no pasture is available. On pasture they get no hay.