Anyone else notice any of their goats wasting away? Pics Added

[misfitmorgan]

Somehow I missed this until now. Glad that is was something that was "fixable". Now I need to go and run a fecal on one of mine that is going bald....I wonder...

Sorry to give you extra work lol.

Still a slow battle with Ella, her entire new coat is coming in very very nicely but her weight gain is still slow. She does seem more energetic and partly back to her old self though which is good. Does anyone know of anything aside from sweet feed style goat grain that will help get weight on her? Atm she gets 3lbs of the 18% sweet goat grain and i honestly do not think that is a healthy amount over all and would definitely not give her anymore. I'm thinking part of her slow weight gain is so much of her calories being put into re-growing her coat.

 

[babsbag]

Look for some show feeds for goats. If you are milking her watch for medicated feed as you wouldn't want that. There is one we get out here called Show Edge Power Phat by Nutrena. Also Manna Pro makes a good supplement and Purina makes one called Noble Goat Charge that we can't get but I would sure try it if we could get it.

 

[misfitmorgan]

She is not in milk, as she did not cycle this last season so was never bred. We had her on noble goat but it came out the same color it went in and was very soft almost diarrhea poo so after she went thru that bag we switched to the 18% sweet from the local mill.

Purina Goat Chow is 16%
Purina Honor Show Chow Impulse Goat is 15.5%
Purina Honor Show Chow Impulse DX Goat is 15.5%
Purina Nobel Goat Grower is 16%
DuMor Goat Feed is 16%
DuMor Goat Sweet Formula Feed is 16%

Is this the supplement your talking about Babs? Manna Pro Goat Balancer Supplement it is 20% protein should help balance out her rumen..has kelp and all sorts of stuff in it.

Thats all the feed i see for TSC... and those are the protein %'s...ours is 18% so it seems i will just have to try a new kind if the balancer doesnt help.

 

[babsbag]

Yes, I have used the Goat Balancer but prefer Calf Manna...25% protein. I just top dress with it, about 1/2 cup or so. But with both of them follow the suggested serving size as they seem to love it and like all "candy" they don't know when to stop and more is NOT better. I had a very sick goat when she helped herself to about a quart of Calf Manna.

Ask TSC if they can get that other Purina feed I mentioned. It seems to be an Eastern US only feed so they might be able to order it for you. Is that the only feed store you have? I know they sell Nutrena feeds in Michigan, I just looked it up, but I seem to recall that you are in the middle of nowhere and then some.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yes, I have used the Goat Balancer but prefer Calf Manna...25% protein. I just top dress with it, about 1/2 cup or so. But with both of them follow the suggested serving size as they seem to love it and like all "candy" they don't know when to stop and more is NOT better. I had a very sick goat when she helped herself to about a quart of Calf Manna.

Ask TSC if they can get that other Purina feed I mentioned. It seems to be an Eastern US only feed so they might be able to order it for you. Is that the only feed store you have? I know they sell Nutrena feeds in Michigan, I just looked it up, but I seem to recall that you are in the middle of nowhere and then some.

Haha yes middle of no where...we have the feed mill/store i will have to wait until we make another feed run to check there but it will be today or tomorrow as far as i know. i shall look into calf manna as well, i do give her probios every so often maybe once a month or so....so her rumen should be doing good i think. Some day i am gonna get pics lol.

 

[babsbag]

They should have the calf manna at TSC, I can also buy it at WalMart.

Our local feed mill started making a 16% goat feed this year and my goats love it. It is a sweet feed but I am ok with that on the milk stand. I was using a 16% cow feed but the goat one has a lot more ingredients...more copper, selenium, some yeast, some dried eggs, and a bunch of other stuff. My goats have been holding weight incredibly well this year. A few have thin coats but I just did the Multi-Min 90 injections again so hopefully that will help their coats. But over all the herd looks good. I do need to check on for cocci just to be sure as her coat is never great.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Sounds about the same as my mill. They have sweet 16 or 18% and a medicated 16%....and then some other name brand stuff.

i can check walmart too but....its the same distance actually a touch farther to walmart lol like 3 miles.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Updated pics of Ella....still a long way to go on weight gain but she is getting there. I wish she would lose the hunched look already it drives me crazy.

She has her coat fully regrown and seems cheery, always wants attention, she is trying to get pets in the second photo. Still a bit flaky along the backbone area.