Can I cry over spilt milk?

She did so much better tonight! The doeling nursed her out again before I got to her, but she didn't try to kick but a few times. She fidgeted but she stopped whenever I patted her side and told her what a good girl she was being....so how do I slow her eating down? She finishes it 5 seconds after I put it in her dish. I tried some rocks: A big one this morning and some silver dollar sized rocks this evening. She left the grain under the big one and the little ones didn't seem to slow her much. Do I need to go smaller...will she accidentally eat shooter marble sized ones? She stood perfectly when eating while I washed her udder.

Going to Idaho to look in CAL Ranch tomorrow. If I can't find Right Now Onyx what type of loose mineral should I look for (dairy cow?) Failing finding loose minerals, would it be okay to get a dairy block and take a sledge hammer to it?

Just look for a mineral that is preferably greyish or dark reddish in color. A high copper cattle mineral would work well. The brand I use (because I can't find right now onyx) is Sweetlix Magnamilk or Sweetlix Meat Maker, made for goats. Lower in salt is best. A mineral block has way too much salt in it to be any good, IMO, even if you broke it up with a hammer.

Toss in a bigger rock if necessary to slow eating. Just be glad you don't have an idiot goat like I do that doesn't like food 98% of the time. Especially I can't get alfalfa and I have to spray the grain with veggie/corn oil and sprinkle on some calcium carbonate as a calcium replacer.. you'd think I'd poisoned it. The other goats don't care. Additionally, she's been milked about 27 months out of her life (she's a 3 year old 3rd fresh) 2x per day every day for 10 month intervals, and she also is too stupid to come in the milkroom when it's time to be milked.

You can also fill up her feeder with a 'filler' like alfalfa pellets. Can't really have too much of those.

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Dona Barski

"Breed the best, eat the rest"

Caprice Acres

French and American Alpines. CAE, Johnes neg herd. Abscess free. LA, DHIR.

Ok. So here is my set up for Penny. The first one is just her up on the stand.



The next 2 are with her hobbled. I just used two lengths of cotton rope.





Then this one is how I secure the hobbles with one of my husbands woodworking clamps.



She still tries to step forward and back but she can't get a full step in. She also can't lay down any more because she can't get her back legs under her. I waited for her to settle down for a long time, but I eventually got tired of her stepping in the container, or kicking it over.

The last two pics are Bucky my wether and Sadie my love!

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Samantha,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Oh yeah, that's my two head gate milk stand that's up on chair casters so I can move it around that my hubby built for me. It has evolved over the years, here it is brand new from my husbands scrap pile.

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Samantha,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I may just have to post a picture of what Cocoa does. She doesn't even try to get her legs under her. You know how some dogs lay down with their legs behind them? Yah... I have a yoga goat. But I do think putting tie points closer to where I want her feet will help significantly.

It was a rodeo to just get the darn rope around her leg. At least now she's letting me do it without a fuss.

She is behaving enough that now I'm wishing for more goats instead of wondering what the heck I had gotten myself into. lol.

I feed alfalfa pellets on the milkstand. It takes them longer to eat those, they love them & they never seem to run out of those on the stand like they do the grain.

Hopefully she'll just settle down in little while. My alpine, Sadie, is nothing like my ND. She kicked over one bucket of milk kicking at a fly. I don't think I cried, but I had one large mess to clean up, and no milk in the fridge!

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Samantha,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.