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10/26/05, 11:12 PM
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Bedias, Texas
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Texas
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What do you feed your goats ???
When I bought my Lamancha I was told to feed her a very highly specialized hand mixed lacation feed. To at LEAST get her lactation pellets. I cant get either so Ive been feeding my goats show goat feed. Ted says he feeds his Boers creep pellets!!! (too cool) So I wonder....what do you feed your different kinds (meat vs. milk) of goats????
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Oak Hill Ranch
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Bedias, Texas
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10/27/05, 12:00 AM
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Rockin B Farm
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Texas
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I keep Boer Goat Express out for some of my goats 24/7. I feed my other goats MFM Goat feed. TYhey also get alfalfa hay, coastal and/or johnson grass hay plus grass and browse. I also cut tree limbs and let them eat the leaves off the branches.
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10/27/05, 07:04 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: CHINA
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16% animal feed sweetened in the winter and unsweetened in the summer (extra calories for heat in winter temps below zero). This year I have also supplemented with Black oil sunflower seed for my skinnier girls and pleased with wt gain. I also feed good/exc. quality timothy hay. I wish I could find alfalfa pellets to feed but no luck yet.
If I had alfalfa pellets I would feed those instead of most of the hay...
My goats are mostly Nubian with a little alpine, toggy and oberhasli thrown in.
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10/27/05, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Anderson, Alabama
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pasture in the summer. Hay in the winter.
Shelled corn once a week to keep them coming up
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10/27/05, 07:25 AM
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Location: Washington
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My cashmeres get orchard grass/clover hay along with alfalfa pellets and black oil sunflower seeds (I want that undercoat soft and shiny!). Late spring, summer, and fall - when pasture and browse are available - they're on pasture instead of the hay.
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10/27/05, 07:35 AM
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Nubian dairy goat breeder
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: michigan
Posts: 4,465
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alfa/grass hay and alfa pellets. loose mineral salt 24/7 . i have nubians.they did grow very well for me.
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10/27/05, 07:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maryland
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For milkers: Alfalfa pellets, hay, and Dairy Goat grain on the milk stand.
For "meat" goats (These are fainters, technically a meat goat, but we raise/sell them mostly as pets): Alfalfa pellets, hay, am considering adding goat grain back in during the winter. OH, and will definitely add grain around 100 days bred.
All have free access to goat minerals from TSC.
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10/27/05, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I feed free-choice 2nd cut alfalfa mix hay and a 16% dairy ration. The ones that aren't producing only get a handful of that, the one that is milking gets it in proportion to her production. They also have salt and mineral mix free-choice - and water, of course! 
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10/27/05, 06:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Kansas
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When I raised dairy goats they got a 16% ration that I had made at the feed mill. I also fed them alfalfa hay.
Now I have Boers and they have pasture, blue stem hay and a 12 % pellet that is made at the feed mill, that includes ammonium chloride for the bucks and a coccidiostat.
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11/30/05, 07:32 PM
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Hey Joy!
Want me to bring you some bags of alfalfa pellets when I see you in a couple weeks? 
Rachel
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12/09/05, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Western Washington
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ALL of my goats get alfalfa hay morning and night in their stall, and roam the hillsides here (though that may have to be curbed due to my reaction to poison oak laced milk) where they get all sorts of browse all day. On the stand, the milking does get a 2/2/1 mix of oats/barley/boss, one quart to each quart of milk produced. Young does in training, and bred does, get 1 quart a day each morning. Dry does and the meat kids (destined for the freezer) only get one quart of the grain mix once a week to feed their herbal wormer, and a monthly foot trim. Free choice mineral and sodium bicarbonate is available free choice. I also keep their water treated with an iodine supplement. I have found it keeps their water sanitary, reducing communable diseases, seriously increases their immune systems, and completely reduces enlarged thyroids so commonly seen in goats.
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12/12/05, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: e tn
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hi all happy holidays how much iodine do you put in water? thanks preston
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12/12/05, 09:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South, South Alabama
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Alfalfa pellets and browse. hay when we have it. leftover veggies and fruits.
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12/13/05, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I mix my own feed, 1/2 sweet horse feed, 1/2 wheat starting January to make healthy babies  and feed all through until drying up time. Then they get millet hay and a little alfalfa that Grace(the milk cow) spills if there lucky .The closest "goat "feed around here is 60 miles away. They all have very well rounded bellies and shiny coats.
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12/14/05, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Montana
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My goats get lactation pellets mixed with sweet feed, black oil sunflower seeds and alfalfa pellets. They get alfalfa hay. I am getting a ton of grass hay tomorrow and if it looks good, I'll probably buy more. ADGA suggests feeding a mix of alfalfa and grass hay in late pregnancy. I know some people who can't get lactation pellets feed their does Purina Goat Chow.
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12/15/05, 10:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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I feed free choice mix hay, free choice alfalfa pellets, plain (no molasses) COB and BOSS on the milkstand. Minerals and bicarb free choice.
That's it. Out of 8 milkers this year, 6 of them will have over 3000 lb lactations....my 2 yr old Alpine had a 4710 lb lactation.
No need for anything "specialized" in my mind....
Tracy
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12/15/05, 10:06 AM
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Nubian dairy goat breeder
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: michigan
Posts: 4,465
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tracy i'm wondering if your girls goe on the bi-carb if you feed them this diet?
mine don't , i don't put it out anymore
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