Re: questions Posted by Vicki McGaugh on June 02, 2001 at 22:07:23:

In Reply to: Re: Thanks goat mom! posted by goat mom on June 02, 2001 at 13:48:10:

Great post Gary! It really does matter where you live. Our copper in our feed is the max our nutritonist will allow and we up that with loose cattle minerals Purina 12 12 which is 700+ppm. I am also from the low protein school. And in fact unless your feed is mostly a soybeanmeal pellet or loose soybean meal, your protein to get it to 20% and under 9$ per 50 is pretty much guaranteed to be fish and feather meal or some other animal fat/byproduct. Corn is fine in a ration but along with oats shouldn't be more than 1/3 of the ration. So to that add alfalfa pellets, barley, cottenseed hulls and meal, soybeans etc. etc. Its when your feed mix says Roughage grain by products, Plant by products etc. that you have to cringe!

Most dairy goats kid at 150 days, with LaMancha's usually going early, haven't ever had an obie to know on them for sure. In 15 years haven't ever had a doe, even when we had boers go more than 5 days late, carrying multiples even Nubians will go 148. Vicki

Follow Ups:

Name:
E-Mail:
Subject:

This GoatWorld Archive Document has not yet been edited to fit into the GoatWorld format and may therefore contain links or information that is not accurate or considered appropriate for the GoatWorld content policy. By clicking this Report This Page link, you will be helping GoatWorld identify pages that need immediate attention until they can be edited in regular updates. If reporting a page, please be sure to include the page address (such as: 5013.shtml) and any information that you feel makes this page unreliable to other visitors.

Email: Contact INFO Telephone: Contact INFO	Designed & Hosted by: PFALZBOT ©1999-2011 GoatWorld.Com
All written, audio, video and graphic material contained within this site, except where otherwise noted, is Copyrighted ©1999-2011. Some content may also be the property of contributors to the site, in which case their material is also protected by applicable copyright laws and this copyright policy. No material may be linked directly to or reproduced in any form without written permission from us. If you would like to reprint something from our site, simply send us an email to request permission to do so. Please refer to our REPRINT criteria. ©Gary and Pamela Pfalzbot, Colorado, USA This site is run and operated by Disabled Veterans