OneFineAcre
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The 59 inches I quoted was at RDU.
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OneFineAcre
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You can't get bermuda grown locally?
OneFineAcre
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I just checked rainfall for our area and we are at 68" for the year, average is 45" it all seems to come at once. During the summer, nobody could cut hay for lack of rain, then somebody turned the tap on and it hasn't quit. Hang in there, the rain will slow down, eventually.
Are bags of dried beet shreds available in your area? I am feeding them to Pearl, our starved mare and she is gaining weight and not eating as much hay. She is getting the roughage she needs from the beet shreds. I soak them in water for about 15 minutes before I give them to her.
A bag is $13.50 at the feed store an hour away where we buy our horse feed, $16.50 at one that is in the next town closer to us. I don't use them as a total hay substitute, but they certainly cut down on the hay bill for Pearl. Square bales are $9.75 to $13.00 and she was eating one every 3 days. Now she goes through a bale a week.
I don't know how beet shreds would do for your goats, maybe a little each day would help with the hay bill.
https://www.ruralking.com/beet-pulp...MIm_qOsJ3F3wIVhMVkCh2pBQK6EAQYAiABEgJt_vD_BwE
We always' feed beet pulp to ours. And alfalfa pellets.
Goat Whisperer
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We've never fed bermuda. They get Orchard, Alfalfa/orchard blend, or alfalfa.
We just got a bale (3x3x8) of alfalfa orchard for the does, and a bale of orchard for the bucks/dry does.
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Never even seen it over our way. I wish we could get it here. I know our goats would love it because they love the bermuda that grows here.
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@Baymule, we get our beet pulp at the NE Texas Coop, about a mile from Martindale Feed. It costs $12.95 there. Although, I don’t think it has a nice pic of horses on the bag. We soak it and add it to the goat’s feed. They love it. 
We get our Bermuda hay from a man South of here. He bought some land, to put his business on, but ended up with a lot more land than he needed. Turns out it had bermuda on it, so he pays someone to cut and round bale it for him. He doesn’t have a lot and we are one of his favorite customers, so he always calls us first, when he is ready to cut. The awesome thing is, that he doesn’t use round up, to get rid of weeds. So, it’s basically GMO free hay.
In the past he sold us a round bale for $30. Last June, he was selling them for $40 each. So, we got 2-1/2 round bales for $95. Last Fall, a neighbor told us he was buying round bales for $100 a piece. 
We get our Bermuda hay from a man South of here. He bought some land, to put his business on, but ended up with a lot more land than he needed. Turns out it had bermuda on it, so he pays someone to cut and round bale it for him. He doesn’t have a lot and we are one of his favorite customers, so he always calls us first, when he is ready to cut. The awesome thing is, that he doesn’t use round up, to get rid of weeds. So, it’s basically GMO free hay.
In the past he sold us a round bale for $30. Last June, he was selling them for $40 each. So, we got 2-1/2 round bales for $95.
Last Fall, a neighbor told us he was buying round bales for $100 a piece.
OneFineAcre
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Saw this on FB. Couldn't stop laughing. This has happened a time of two!
What is this "Selling Goats" that you speak of?
Bruce
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Half a round bale?? Does that mean just small because they ran out at the end of the field?
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What is this "Selling Goats" that you speak of?
I know right!
This is kinda cool. We visited our friend today and got to see her new kids! They are our "grand kids"
The goat kind that is.They were all super adorable. She asked us, "so what do you think?" We asked her to select who she thought was the best.
Meanwhile GW and I are locked in on a goat. We both started laughing. I asked GW, "You looking at the same one I'm looking at?"
She said, "I am pretty sure we are looking at the same one."
We looked at each other and called it out!
Yeah, this lil doeling... STUNNING! We really couldn't take our eyes off the goat!
The second we saw her we knew! Just wow!
We also got to see 2 of the does we sold and their 1st freshening udder's. Both were very nice! One's udder is better than the other. Better fore udder and blending, capacious. Could have a better medial but very nice! So that was pretty cool too.
We got to see all the other goats too. All her goats have come from us. The 6 does and 3 bucks. One doe kidded last year she kept them so it is really nice to see them all developing. I loved each one of these goats and I am so happy they went where they did. The goats are so loved on and so well cared for. Spoiled, but just wonderful sweet goats. It is fun being around goats that were born into our hands and seeing their new owners loving them so much.
I do feel so blessed by the amazing people I have met through goats!
Bruce
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Nothing like seeing your stock improving other people's herds!
