Home grown feed?

[stanb999]

Has any of you tried to grow your own grain ration?

I was thinking that I could grow a field of sunflowers And a field of buckwheat.
I would then use a chopper to bulk chop both and add mineral concentrate.

From what I've read the sunflowers only lack Lysine but the buckwheat is high in this so it should be good.

I would be using this to supplement protein on pasture.

[red hott farmer]

Stan, I would be interested also. I will try to find out. I do know my goats love those sunflowers!

[homeacremom]

I am very interested in getting more info on this.I might get blasted for ignorance, but I feed my dairy goats a homemade/homegrown mix of 1 part sunflower seed, 1 part whole oats, and 1/2 part cracked corn, varying the amount to fit the need-weather, pregnancy,etc. They also get good mixed grass hay, alfalfa hay, and pasture. I would love to find out if this is sufficient long term. The goats are in much better condition than they ever were on the commercial feed mixes so something is working right.
They have free-choice mineral salt, soda, and (trying) different mineral mixes- they hardly touch any of them, especially when they are getting the alfalfa.