Feeding/Supplement Routine
Kids (birth to 12-16 weeks)
Doelings & Bucklings 16 weeks-6 months)
ALL GOATS
- goat milk
- free choice Blue Seal Home Fresh medicated goat feed, free choice hay and free choice minerals
- Chaffhaye offered
Doelings & Bucklings 16 weeks-6 months)
- Free choice Blue Seal Home Fresh medicated goat feed
- Calf manna (if needed)
- Chaffhaye offered
- Blue Seal Home Fresh medicated goat feed (adjust for more during rut/with does for breeding or as body condition warrants. Not all bucks require grain, and we adjust accordingly and find a well balanced grain to keep our bucks conditioned well throughout the year)
- Chaffhaye once per day
- Oats
- Chaffhaye once per day
- Blue Seal Field & Farm Dairy Goat feed, oats and added BOSS
- Chaffhaye once per day
- Blue Seal Field & Farm Dairy Goat feed 2x/day on milk stand (as much as they want)
- Chaffhaye am/pm
ALL GOATS
- free choice grass hay
- free choice SweetLix Meat Maker or Purina goat minerals (currently using by Sweetlix but will be switching to Purina due to consistent difficulties in obtaining SweetLix)
- free choice kelp meal
- Routine fresh garlic
- Weekly herbal parasite prevention from Fir Meadows (medications are only used in the event a parasite load warranting such is an issue)
- copper bolus/ copper oxide needle capsule (as needed)
- Zinc and selenium (as needed)