Goat Feed Recipes

Frosted Minis: I probably could find some citrus pulp, I live in Florida so citrus is a large industry here. Thank you for that suggestion!

As far as the forage, we're getting an O/A mix hay and have a decent pasture with lots of brush in it.

My goat experience has involved tons of experimentation with their food. I still haven't found something that is both reasonably priced and results in the weight gain that I want to see. For a while I just gave up and started feeding 12% all stock sweet feed and whole corn with free choice grass hay and goat minerals. They put on some weight with that mix for sure, but still not as much as I wanted. This month I am transitioning them back to alfalfa pellets, holding on to the whole corn, and adding beet pulp pellets, all with free choice grass hay on the side to try and put on additional weight for winter. I sprinkle a little bit of BOSS on top of their feed when I bring it out, but not very much at all. A 40lb bag is lasting me about four months for five goats.

I'm not really concerned about GMOs or organic foods. I don't worry about them for myself, so I certainly don't worry about them for my goats.

300lbs oats
50 corn
150 alfalfa pellets
100 belt pulp
100 boss
200 noble goat dairy parlor
100 molasses

Or something like that.


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Some sources you might find helpful:
http://ansci.cornell.edu/goats/nutrition.html
http://www.sheep.cornell.edu/managem...ing/index.html

empty calories = energy
Different connotation, same denotation.
Whether or not it is a good thing depends on what your feed is short on. If you're using a mineral premix in the feed then you need more calories to go with that. If you want to get all your trace elements without a premix then you need to account for that in the calorie sources selected. Intake rates are usually adjusted by calorie density, so if your macronutrient density is too low they're not going to eat enough feed to get the micronutrients they need. BUT, it's not always beneficial to forever push up all micronutrients blindly, an excess of one thing can cause a deficiency of another.