how do you weigh goats? (or sheep, or...)

cathleenc · #1 09/04/07, 10:21 PM

I haven't seen anything explaining HOW to weigh the goats (aka - what equipment do you use) just everything saying to use weight-specific doses for food, supplements, meds, etc.

How do you weigh yours? What's the easiest, least expensive way to get the job down with a reasonable range of accuracy?

thanks!
Cathy

DocM · #2 09/04/07, 10:41 PM

Tape measure around the heart girth and a corresponding weight chart like the one below. I've used this and then weighed a goat and it was pretty close, within a couple pounds.
http://fiascofarm.com/goats/weight-chart.htm

xoxoGOATSxoxo · #3 09/05/07, 03:21 PM

Thats what I was going to post! But, yeah, baisically, thats the way its done.

cathleenc · #4 09/05/07, 03:41 PM

thank you! I just couldn't imagine that everyone had expensive livestock scales stashed away but the answer was not 'appearing' to me. thanks!

ONThorsegirl · #5 09/05/07, 08:59 PM

Opps, sorry I'm the one thats going to answer the scales, we have a set of scales we weigh our sheep, lambs, and we can weigh smaller hogs as well. But we havne't weighed our goats yet but its there!

Melissa

devdragon33 · #6 09/07/07, 08:23 AM

same here. we have a scale

sunnygrl · #7 09/07/07, 10:07 AM

how do you measure goats that are not dairy without a scale?.... all the charts i've seen are for dairy goats only.

cathleenc · #8 09/07/07, 10:49 AM

where can someone buy livestock scales? I don't have a clue what they look like!