What food scraps do you give your goats?

[mousebandit]

Just wondering what food scraps you guys give your goats. What about peelings and such (fruit and veggie peelings)?

Thanks!

Tracey Mouse

[moosemaniac]

Well....Lily likes red wine, dry preferrably.

Fruit, peppermints, raisins, that sort of thing.

Ruth

[pookshollow]

I tend to give the vegetable scraps to the chickens - they eat darned near anything!

The goats will get weeds that we pull - burdock, dandelion, plantain (what I don't give to the rabbits) - and when the garden is in, they like pumpkin, zucchini, and I think one of them likes tomatoes, or that might have been the geese. :baby04:

Well....Lily likes red wine, dry preferrably.

Fond of my goats as I am, they're not getting my wine!!! And I'd hate to think what drunk goats would get up to.

[moosemaniac]

LOL Pookshollow. I discovered that about Lily one evening. I was perusing some garden flowers and sipping on a glass of red wine. Lily was at the fence hollering for me. I went over to scratch her ears and she insisted on seeing what I had. I put my finger in and offered her a taste. I no longer drink red wine where she can see me.

Ruth

[lgslgs]

Sandy's favorite is grape stems. Yum!

Lynda

[jen74145]

Mine LOVED small bits of carrot. When my first Nigie was a housegoat (tiny baby and all) she'd stand at my feet and beg whenever I had the cutting board out.
IIRC, squashes are good too, and turnips and of course, beets.

[thaiblue12]

Carrots, bananas, grapes, apples, lettuce, potatoes ( but not much not sure about the starch) and so forth. I found that they do not like cabbage or aparagus. When I have a lot of scraps I make them their own "salad"
They of course like the trees I am trying to plant, the bushes too! No amount of fencing stops them so I am going electric.
For icky things I give them animal crackers which they adore.
Need a shot... have a cracker!
Got to band your privates... have an animal cracker! lol

[GoatLove]

Originally Posted by moosemaniac

LOL Pookshollow. I discovered that about Lily one evening. I was perusing some garden flowers and sipping on a glass of red wine. Lily was at the fence hollering for me. I went over to scratch her ears and she insisted on seeing what I had. I put my finger in and offered her a taste. I no longer drink red wine where she can see me.

Ruth

LOL! I was sipping on a G&T (gin & tonic) in the goat pen when Rocky came up to me. He seemed intrigued by my G&T, so I gave him a sip Well, after his first sip, he started trying to drink the whole thing I no longer drink G&T's where he can see me.

Anyway, for food scraps, I give the goaties left over bananas w/skin on, carrots, crackers, bread, and corn.

[Jim S.]

Prime rib is a fav of my herd, though they will settle for a good ribeye.

[mousebandit]

You guys are hilarious!! I am cracking up picturing drunk goats!!!!

I guess I'll give my scrappy things to the chickies, and save the better treats for the goaties!

I'm gonna be laughing all day now!!

Tracey Mouse