05/12/11, 07:08 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
Posts: 30,482
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Sometimes people use verbiage on here that is deliberately inflammatory and rude.
I guess my veterinarian who advises against excessive corn and is a cow lactation dairy expert and consultant is a fool. He explained that the goal of high corn diets for dairy animals is to push excessive short term production, not ensure the long term health of the animals. He says that the lifetime production of a dairy animal who has not been fed corn will exceed that of the production yield of the shorter lived dairy animal who has been pushed with corn.
According to Sheep and Goat Medicine, edited by D.G. Pugh, DVM, MS, Auburn University, Alabama, the excessive feeding of corn causes reduction of digestibility of forage. Forage is supposed to be the primary component of goat diets.
I feed corn in winter when it's cold, but I also believe that too much corn is harmful to dairy animals.
Just a foolish goat lady, I guess. 
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Last edited by Alice In TX/MO; 05/12/11 at 07:24 PM.
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lol
