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FEED INFO
Winter time, pregnant does and milking does.
I make a special grain mix for my girls and they do very well on it. I
have found that with this grain mixture i have never had a doe with
milk fever. here is the mixture:

3~~50lb. Bags of 13% live stock grain. with a touch of molasses not
enough to make it stick together.

1~~50lb. Bag of black oil sunflower seeds

1~25~50lb. Bag of  Animax or Calf Mana will do  they are basically
the same thing.

1~~50lb. Bag of rolled barley IF YOU WANT

6 to 7 ~~~1lb. Bags of split peas (from grocery store.)

1~~50 lb. Bag of alfalfa pellets

I also add one hand full of Wheat bran to each pan of grain daily.
I also feed either this or just straight 13% grain to my bucks.

I feed 2 cubes hay 2 times a day per adult goat. For youngsters i feed
1 cube of hay 2 times a day. To me a cube is 4 to 5 inches thick x
width of bail.
The Hay I use for my goats is the Greenest Grass Hay I can get. It
has to be very visibly green. I only feed Alfalfa to my goats in the
summer time or once in a while in the winter with their green grass
hay as a top dresser. (My goats won't eat grass hay in the summer)


My goats have free range of our property during the day when I am
home (which is most of the time). At night I lock them in their stalls. I
used to fence my goats but most of my goats are fence jumpers and
they don't usually take off to the neighbors property any more since I
found homes for the instigators of that.as they free range my goats
are happy and can eat the brush and whatever they want around our
place. (I don't have any poisonous plants here for them to eat.)

I do have a guard dog for the goats and our property. He is well
trained in chasing off predators. Wich is needed with goats to be
happy and stress free.



                MY HAY---->

   MY PASTURE ----->
I give them a wealth of water a day
they get one 5 gallon bucket for
each stall filled 2 times a day plus
a 25 gallon tub of water for out in
pasture. MY GIRLS ALSO GET GOAT
MINERAL BLOCKS
My grain formula
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for winter, pregnancy
and milking does.