A homemade dairy goat ration.COUNTRYSIDE: I'd like to make our own goat feed for dairy goats. We already make it for our steers and would like to do the same for our milking goats. I would like any suggestions you have--I'm looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. something that will keep the milk coming. Thanks.--Mary, Pennsylvania Jennifer Stultz, editor of COUNTRYSIDE'S sister publication Dairy Goat Journal, replies: Here is the grain ration I use for my own dairy goats, specially formulated to meet their nutritional needs. Feel free to take it to your local mill and see if they can come up with something similar, perhaps using locally available grain products. Our goats do very well on this and have earned milk production awards. We also feed plenty of homegrown alfalfa alfalfa (ălfăl`fə) or lucern (l  sûn`), perennial leguminous plant (Medicago sativa , have rotational graze/ browse acreage available to them, and
offer brome or prairie hay round bales for variety in the winter.
Custom Goat Ration (1 ton mix) Corn, coarse crimped crimped said of grain that has been passed through corrugated rollers after previous exposure to moist heat so that the grain is fractured but there is a minimum of dust. bulk, 1,034 lbs. Oats, whole bulk, 450 lbs. Soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been meal hi-pro bulk, 356 lbs. Molasses molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the uncrystallizable sugars as well as some remnant sucrose. , cane-ca lig 70-30, 150 lbs. Salt, mp stock 50#, 20 lbs. Dical phosphate 21%, 50#, 10 lbs. Monosodium phosphate 50#, 10 lbs. Magnesium oxide magnesium oxide: see magnesia. , 54% 50#, 4 lbs. Vitamin A, 30,000 IU/G 50#, 0.6 lbs. Vitamin D3, 30,000/G 50#, 0.3 lbs. Vitamin 10 G (vitamin B2), 10 lbs. For more information on goats, check out www.dairygoatjournal.com or call 1-800-551-5691 for a sample copy of Dairy Goat Journal or sheep! magazine. |
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