Put out your bicarbonate of soda, free choice, spring is here!!

[DonnaBelle]

My goats are eating a lot of bicarb of soda now.

I am putting it out daily in a feeder in the barn.

It's the kind you buy in big bags at the feed store, not at the drug store.

Everything is very green, their tummies are used to hay, and they need it for their rumens.

DonnaBelle

 

[Bleenie]

Thanks for posting this, i didn't know it! have 4 rescue girls that are choosing the green grass over the hay so it'll probably help them.

 

[Mike CHS]

Pardon a probably silly question but how do you encourage them to take it? That doesn't seem like a tasy food item by itself.

 

[sprocket]

Pardon a probably silly question but how do you encourage them to take it? That doesn't seem like a tasy food item by itself.

They'll know when they'll need it and how much they'll need - just put out a couple cups at a time and let them figure the rest out.

 

[CYGChickies]

No feed stores in my area carry it so I buy the biggest box I can find at the grocery store. Is that ok to do? Besides being pricey lol.

 

[CordleFarm]

We buy the big boxes of baking soda from our local Sam's Club. They eat it when they need it and leave it when they don't.

 

[melody]

I thought Bicarb sounded weird too but I do put it out and they do eat it when they need it. I only have 2 girls so I keep a small cup of that next to the small cup of free choice mineral.

 

[DonnaBelle]

My goats ate a ton of it about 2 months ago when we got a lot of rain and pastures and brouse was new and green.

They have slowed up some, but I have one doe who won't eat any grain at all, just pasture and brouse, and she always eats a little soda.

It's kinda like when we eat too many green apples I think. LOL

DonnaBelle