20kidsonhill
True BYH Addict
After reading many of these posts, I would like to carry on for a minute about feeding your livestock. Goats or any species for that matter.
Specific species need feed for that species, A feed is formulated for that species. You are better off to purchase an all-purpose feed for more than one species being fed together than feeding the wrong feed to an animal.
For example:
Sheep CAN NOT be fed Goat feed. Goats have a much higher copper requirment than sheep, and too much copper fed to sheep can kill them.
Horses can not be fed certain coccidiosis medications: I beleive it is Rumensin or monensin, something like that.
Goats can NOt eat feed with Urea in it.
Goats need goat feed, because it is formulated with the mineral requirements that they need.
An all-purpose feed would do in a pinch, but eventually your goat would become low in certain minerals.
They are goats, not sheep, chickens, ect.....
For you experienced farmers, please post any feeds, minerals, ect.... That you now a certain species should not eat or has to have inorder to live a long, healthy, productive life span.
Specific species need feed for that species, A feed is formulated for that species. You are better off to purchase an all-purpose feed for more than one species being fed together than feeding the wrong feed to an animal.
For example:
Sheep CAN NOT be fed Goat feed. Goats have a much higher copper requirment than sheep, and too much copper fed to sheep can kill them.
Horses can not be fed certain coccidiosis medications: I beleive it is Rumensin or monensin, something like that.
Goats can NOt eat feed with Urea in it.
Goats need goat feed, because it is formulated with the mineral requirements that they need.
An all-purpose feed would do in a pinch, but eventually your goat would become low in certain minerals.
They are goats, not sheep, chickens, ect.....
For you experienced farmers, please post any feeds, minerals, ect.... That you now a certain species should not eat or has to have inorder to live a long, healthy, productive life span.