Grain free Goats?

Originally Posted by Clovers_Clan

If you are trying to limit grain, or any commercial inputs as much as possible, I highly recommend a forage garden. You can either rotate it seasonally or hand feed. I live in Georgia and it is simply amazing how much good quality browse you can grow in a small space using buck plot seed, especially in winter. I rotate my annual vegetable garden with the goat forage garden, the system improves my vegetables as well by reducing insect pests and improved soil. And I use portable chicken pens to fertilize and till. My 150'x 200' garden sustains 3-4 weanlings during the summer months(no other feed). I let the bucks and horse crop it low in the fall, then reseed. By the time everything dies back in the pasture, I have a good buck plot growing in the garden and horse paddock that will feed the does through the winter, along with any overgrown privet/bramble areas I let grow up during summer. Its easy to just experiment with a bag of buck plot seed suited to your area. Most don't require drilling