My homemade mineral feeders

Frosted Mini's · #21 10/09/13, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by o&itw

They seem pricey, but I visited several commercial breeders this last week and they all swear by these:

http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.h...2-00b0d0204ae5

I was further advised that goats love to stand on mineral feeders, and the ones that are made similar to this by other vendors will break or collapse after a while. They implied that the goats would slide off of these but really didn't go into the reason they lasted so well. Two of them showed me similarly made mineral feeders of a different brand where the rubber tops were broken. (don't know the brand, the body of the feeder was orange)

Those look pricey enough they better last!!

TRAILRIDER · #22 10/10/13, 09:53 AM

The ones I made are like that too. But with caps on the bottom. I know you have a large number of goats so yours will not cake and clump since they will be emptied more quickly. I just have 8 goats so I only fill the bottom part with mineral and I use a separate feeder for baking soda. Each day I look to see if there are any goat droppings in them, and just brush the poops out. I think they work well over all. And I think they look nice and clean, and they are very safe.