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Old 03/30/11, 06:44 PM
 
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Blue Seal Dairy Pellets?

So, after searching every feed store in the area, the only one that carries non-medicated goat pellets is a half hour away. Most of them carry Purina feeds, but not the dairy pellets for some reason. The only non-medicated pellets I can get are the Blue Seal Dairy Goat Pellets. I have always fed Purina Goat Chow or Southern States sweet goat feed, but after reading on here that the molasses is bad for copper absorbtion, I decided to switch them to pellets (they are highly annoyed, btw, lol). So we are switching over to the Blue Seal pellets. I was just wondering if any of you use them and if you like them. How do they compare to the Purina Dairy Goat 16 that I can't get anyway?

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Old 03/30/11, 08:23 PM
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I must prefer the Blue Seal Caprine Challenger to Purnia, though I've not used the dairy goat pellet
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Old 03/30/11, 09:45 PM
 
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i never heard of blue seal sorry but i never knew that molases sucks up the copper so maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to switch to something else? i am also using purina goat chow and they keep going up in price too.
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Old 03/31/11, 07:04 AM
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I feed That and my goats love it.
I have grade goats producing well over 1 gallon a milking ,not a day.
I feed 1 1/2-2 lbs each feeding.
My goats do NOT get any alfalfa but their hay is running about 18%- 20% protein.
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Old 03/31/11, 07:27 AM
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Blue Seal is a New England brand I believe, a farmer co-op type, I feed my chickens the blue seal layer feed and they have laid constantly through winter, they gobble it all down. The goats would gobble the chicken feed down if I let them
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