What We FEED Our Goats (NOW) to REDUCE COST!
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- How we have cut back to make feeding more affordable, without sacrificing health.
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'If a cloud of dust comes up, it's not goat quality.' Thank you so much for this gem. Love it when it's simple & straightforward
Thank you, Blessings
My sisters horses had planted some spots of alfalfa in there droppings. Now that there are no grazers on the field I am doing rotational mowing with the scythe and I leave the alfalfa until it sets seed then mow it and spread it out where the soil is poor to drop the seed. Also doing the same with vetch when it is thick.
great! that's fantastic. our pasture was scalped when we moved in.
I think its wonderful how you researched so carefully the nutritional needs for your goats. The connection you made with the chaffhaye was interesting... and suspicious. Great info... and God bless!🙂💗🐐👍👍👍
Thank you! They are my babies!
This was interesting...organic isnt always the best..just because its labeled that way doesnt mean a pesticide wasnt used on it... learned this from an "organic farm" when i saw them spraying in white suits and i asked... lets just say i look for gmo free (non gmo) places which tend to be better than that "organic" not say all do it but ALOT do.
Best wishes for a beautiful day 🌻
Thank you!
Thanks for info
Great video today on your feed evolution thank you. ;) It just makes good sense to me since we all are trying to be self-reliant & grow more of what we eat...I think that since people have been herding animals for thousands of years, it only makes sense to keep it simple and let most of their food be natural forage. I was thinking you have a decent size herd now Rose...have you ever considered being a goat grazing company? I sure would pay you to have them over here for a week. I have raspberry and canadian thistle taking over. :) Just a thought I had if you ever get the point where you can't afford to feed them & the pastures are bare...hire them out with electric netting... and go sit and read a book with them while you sip a cool drink. o.-
It is way to risky and stressful for dairy goats.
Thanks Rose!
thanks Rose for the info.
Mr. Rain no problem! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this i have 3 breed goats and needed to know this, i feed a alfa-oat mix from the feed store instead of buying both oats and alfa to save money, and did feed the black sunflower seed but my goats didn't eat it, i feed all stock sweet feed and dairy feed also,
Thank you so much!!!
Honestly back when I had my goats they grazed with the sheep and they ate the same feed as the sheep and they got hay when it was too rainy to take them outside. They did fine.
Genevieve Greene Sheep food doesn’t have sufficient copper levels for goats. We fed a feed only for goats that didn’t have enough copper but still more than the sheep feed but they were doing poorly on that.
Thank you!
goats need more copper than sheep by far. I take it they were not dairy goats either? how many years?
Wholesome Roots alpine saanen. One was in milk and I kept her three years. They grazed every day from morning til night. I never heard about all these supplements until recently on the Facebook groups.
Animalsforever31 I thought concentrated feed was meant to supplement their diet if they were doing poorly on bush. They were good weight and high energy. The feed wasn't labelled for sheep and it wasn't a pellet but a coarse flour type feed, varying shades of brown. We mixed in molasses occasionally. We wormed them. That was it.
Working on doing a tmr mix myself have about 160 nannies in Southwestern Minnesota
Wow! That's quite a herd. Meat or dairy? Do you allow visitors? I am in the area and would love to hear all about your operation. I'm in Southeast SD. We have a sheep herd but the goats are just my hobby for now
@@char-knee496 ya that would work. I'm down some head now though turns out had mycotoxins in the silage so that was a tough one. We do meat goats
@@Michael-te6jh oh shoot. That hurts!
@@char-knee496 ya it does gonna innoxulate it next year hopefully that helps they ate it great
Great information. Love from NC
Thank you!
Sadly I learned the hard way about hay quality when I first got into to goats. What I thought was a little dusty was actually a little moldy and one of my nigerians got listeria from it. Thank goodness I knew what she had and acted quickly and saved her but it was touchy there for a bit. Not to mention nerve racking and exhausting tending to her around the clock for days on end. Now I'm much more picky when it comes to hay. I've been wanting to invest in a few of the electric netting fences to move them through my woods but....ehh money is always tight so I haven't been able to work it into the budget yet so we go through a round bale a month. Which isn't too terribly bad I guess.
I want goats but hubby wants to know how you recoup the cost of raising them first. Is there any advice you can give on that?
I guess he is wanting a cost-benefit analysis, like how much do they cost to buy, feed and meet their medical needs versus how much they contribute to the farm? It would not even have to make a profit as long as it broke even at the end of the year.
I tried Googling it but I must not be asking the right questions because I got all sorts of strange answers, some having nothing to do with goats at all LOL. Maybe you could do a segment on that since you have all the receipts for things we might not even have thought of. Thanks in advance, love your show!
Thank you! They mostly break even. If I sell more kids I make a lot more.
Great informative video Rose, thank you. :)
Thank you!
What a great video! Just curious: what mineral are you using? Ours is non-gmo I believe but I’m always interested to see what other goat minerals people are using
southern states goat mineral
thanks!
Do you grow your own alfalfa and mix pasture for goats and rotate the paddocks
We do not grow alfalfa at this time. We don't own our property or we would be planting pasture with a variety of plants that would be better for our goats, lespedeza, sun hemp, mornings, alfalfa, etc. We do rotate our paddocks, that helps so much!
From what I understand, goats don't need grain until they are pregnant & nursing. When that time comes, there are no oats in our area, so, what can we use to replace the oats. How much copper should the goats be getting? They are 4 months old, ND. & one mix of ND/Lamancha. Hmmm, you just said that the kids do need grain. Well, maybe the alfalfa pellets are sufficient for their grain. I have to check to see if there is 2 calcium for each phosphorus in the pellets. If not, how do I get that balance ? Ok, so, I need to check the minerals as that is where the copper will be. Where do you get beet pulp ? Oh you may be saying bee pulp. Where do you get that? What brand of Vit C? Are you using chewable? How much?
She said beet pulp :)
just leave them out then. a copper bolus every 6 months on top of free choice minerals high in copper. Beet pulp is at the feed store. Chewable vit c one or two offered every so often and always when sick.
We will look for copper Bolus at our feed store. If they don't have them, as they don't have everything we need, where can we find the copper. So, you are saying a replacement for the oats aren't necessary? I want to do what is best for our kids, if they are still considered kids at 4 months. I am guessing just the chewable vit c that we can get over the counter.
yes. Amazon sells copper bolus
Do you have a link to Copper Bolus on Amazon in case we need to buy it, so you can earn as an affiliate?
Ok I watched this video again and that red scoop you have I use 4 scoops for 4 adults and a baby. I knew I was over feeding them. Of course there not gonna tell me that... ughhhh just went and spent 100 dollars today on feed and hay. No wounded my goats love me lol
wow! i use ONE scoop for 5 goats, lol
I bet ya I will from now on lol
Hey! I love your videos! Do you know a way of eliminating the all stock feed for something different? I'm looking at different recipes to avoid purchasing the base feed. So far, I have whole oats, black oil sunflower seeds, alfalfa pellets. Plus, the free choice sodium bicarbonate and other minerals and hay. Any suggestions?
If the hay gets soaked. Can I dry it out or is it spoiled?
It would be ruined and not safe for feeding animals at all! It will be full of listeria and cause possible deaths. It can be used as mulch in the garden if not sprayed with herbicide.
I am Binge Watching some of your Videos Today. Long Story short. I Now have 2 goats. I am wanting to make sure they are getting fed exactly what they need. This Video was very useful for me! Thank you for all this info! I was told to put a little bit of baking soda in their feed every time I feed. Do you recommend this? It is not free choice. Thanks!
It's not necessary. goats produce their own bicarbonate.
Do the same rules apply to goats that are just our pets? We have 5 Nigerian Dwarfs, 3 wethers and 2 does.
I don't miss feeding my dairy does. They required so much more. Our Boer goats are much more profitable than our dairy were. Do you soak the beet pulp?
Thank you! Dairy are so much more work and cost than meat. we soak in winter but also mix the shreds dry in grain and offer fresh water all the time.
I don’t have goats hopefully one day. How much does it cost to fed per goat? Just curious
Elaine Guevara There are way too many factors that go into this. For example- Location, Climate, Breed, Age, Gender, Feed Store, Feed Brand, Hay, Forage, Minerals, Weight, Supplements, etc
exactly what Animals forever said!
exactly!
what size are your stalls?
I just fed my baby goats.
In what form do you give the goats vitamin C as free choice?
We have 90*+ humidity here in Texas. I have put out goat minerals free choice but the humidity dampens the minerals and I end up disposing it. I am only putting a little in their feeders now. Hopefully, they will use it before getting moist. Any tips would be helpful.
What is the name and author of the book you mentioned in this video? Sounds like a great goat book!
Terry Woods if you milk them you could put some right on whatever you feed them at milking time. I have seen a video somewhere and she had the minerals in a salt shaker and put in on the grain along with a spoonful of baking soda.
I don't know if this would work for you but it did form her.
Thanks Courtney. I may try getting a Parmesan cheese shaker with larger holes and try it that way.
They get offered one or two chewable tablets at a time in my hand or oranges. Minerals and salts as well as baking soda are not to be sprinkled on food unless you are dosing them a special amount because of a specific issue.
That is not a good idea at all. It should never be force fed by putting on feed. Baking soda is not needed unless the rumen completely shuts down and is back to healing.
I do not recommend that at all.
Just a thought I wanted to share with you because I care
Thank you!
You sure know what you’re doing 😃
Charmaine Montgomery thank you! Always learning!
Where are y'all in GA? I'm in Loganville. I have 4 goats.
Thank you for sharing this information, new friends here just subscribed hope we can connect! Thanks friends, Blessings
is yeast a fungus too
Sister please help me I m in a fix whether I should feed alfalfa to my bucks and wethers desperately waiting for your reply.
Absolutely! it Helps keep the calcium to phosphorus ratio 2:1 or higher as it is high in calcium.
Hello Mom are you still farming
Sure are! We moved and diversified! Watch one of our newer update videos and see!
xxx
Do you lock your goat's up every night?
yes
Post your information safely so people like me can help you out a little!
Thank you! I have a PO box for safety.
Take your goats in walks and they’ll feed themselves
I know someone that made 1200 $for 14 baby goat's
that would be $5600 in dairy kids...
Good mam 🇵🇰👌
And they don't feed there meat goat's grains
:)
Why you don't add meat goat's and sell the baby's 2,60 a pound that would pay for feet
Daniela Pettus We raise Boer goats. They do make a good profit. They don't take grain except starting two weeks before kidding till weaning.
I honestly don't know if I could add anymore animals, we use the dairy and it makes more sense to us. Dairy kids go for $400... soooo....
Sorry but I totally disagree and not because of the money made, but because of killing such sweet goats. My heart would be crushed just knowing that any of our goats would be used for meat. I realize some people can do that, but I will never understand how. I carefully screen people who buy our goats because I will make sure that they will never eat them. Sorry ladies, I have a tender ❤️.