Soggy Minerals

[verkagj]

How do you keep loose minerals from getting soggy in humid weather? It's always humid here in Belize. The goats don't want them when they get soggy.

 

[redtailgal]

I just put out what my guys will use in a day.

 

[SheepGirl]

When you go out to feed, you can always take a bucket of minerals and leave it out there for 15-20 minutes and let the goats eat what they want and then take it back out of the humidity so it won't get ruined.

 

[elevan]

When you go out to feed, you can always take a bucket of minerals and leave it out there for 15-20 minutes and let the goats eat what they want and then take it back out of the humidity so it won't get ruined.

This is probably what I would try given your location and humidity issues.

 

[currycomb]

i just sprinkle on the sweet feed. just a couple handfuls for 17 goats, and not daily, a couple times a week

 

[NYRIR]

I am VERY new to goats but what I do is bring it to them in the am daily and let them lick what they want before they get their grains.Kind of time consuming but for right now it's how I do it due to not having the type of feeders I want to use made.

 

[verkagj]

Thanks for suggestions. I do take it a container of minerals out when I feed them at night. Most of the time they don't want it. I thought I was being a bad mom by not having it available at all times.

 

[redtailgal]

having it available at all times is better in my opinion, but doing what ya gotta do does not make you a bad mom!

 

[that's*satyrical]

It's really humid here too & mine was getting yucky in the free feeder so I started putting a couple handfuls in their feed. It generally drops to the bottom of the feeder under the feed & they will lick up what they want after they eat which is always all of it. So this way it doesn't have time to get all nasty & they still get their minerals every day.