Southern States brand goat feed

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Does anyone here use Southern States brand goat feed? If so, how well does it work with your goats?

They have both a 15% meat goat feed and a general 17% goat feed (the 17% comes in pelleted or sweet feed). We have dairy goats but I'm interested in what everyone thinks of it in general.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

If anything get the 17% feed. Do NOT get sweet feed. Sweet feed is crap feed.

Give more nutritional info on it and I can help to tell you if it is good or not.

I at least need the Protein, Fiber, Fat, and Ca ratio.

 

[marlowmanor]

If anything get the 17% feed. Do NOT get sweet feed. Sweet feed is crap feed.

Give more nutritional info on it and I can help to tell you if it is good or not.

I at least need the Protein, Fiber, Fat, and Ca ratio.

Online this is the only info they have listed about it

Category: Complete
Form: Pellet
Life Stage: Meat Goats
Life Stage: Growing & Mature
Life Stage: Dairy Goats
Protein: 17%
Fat: 3.00%

I was curious about it myself recently (only because our regular guy was out of feed when we needed it). I didn't make the trip to SS to check it out though since there was no price listed online. If I have to drive over 30 minutes for feed I want to know as much as possible before buying it and since I was comparing prices too it didn't help to not have the price listed online.

 

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I have the feed tag for the regular pelleted goat feed, I'll take a photo of it and post it...

 

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Here is the feed tag from the Southern States 17% Goat Feed:

For comparison, here is the tag from Purina Goat Chow:

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

The feed actually doesn't look too bad. Most SS stuff I see I do not like.

I like the Protein. I like mine to be 16-18 but really like the 17-18% range. Fat I like anywhere from 2.5-3% and would not go below 2 or above 4%. The fat at 3% is good. Now the Fiber is low for my tastes. I like HIGH Fiber. Goat MUST have alot of fiber. I like mine 16-18+%. I myself wouldn't like going below 15% but if you do be sure you are feeding them hay to get the fiber in them.

I think that if you got long fiber and more general fiber into them then that food could work well for you.

The Goat Chow? No way. No sweet feed.

 

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The feed actually doesn't look too bad. Most SS stuff I see I do not like.

I like the Protein. I like mine to be 16-18 but really like the 17-18% range. Fat I like anywhere from 2.5-3% and would not go below 2 or above 4%. The fat at 3% is good. Now the Fiber is low for my tastes. I like HIGH Fiber. Goat MUST have alot of fiber. I like mine 16-18+%. I myself wouldn't like going below 15% but if you do be sure you are feeding them hay to get the fiber in them.

I think that if you got long fiber and more general fiber into them then that food could work well for you.

The Goat Chow? No way. No sweet feed.

We feed free choice alfalfa pellets and free choice lespadeza hay

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Well that's the issues. Goats need LONG FIBER. They WILL NOT get that long fiber from alfalfa pellets. If you feed the pellets and you have the feed with 10% Fiber you had pretty much be sure they always have hay out to eat. And I mean real hay, not alfalfa pellets.

I personally am not a fan of the pellets AT ALL but I know some like them. Go ahead and feed it to them but I would get cheap grass hay from some farmer down the road and give it to them at all times. That way they get the feed they need, good stuff from the alfalfa pellets, as well as the long fiber that goat MUST have to live.

 

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Well that's the issues. Goats need LONG FIBER. They WILL NOT get that long fiber from alfalfa pellets. If you feed the pellets and you have the feed with 10% Fiber you had pretty much be sure they always have hay out to eat. And I mean real hay, not alfalfa pellets.

I personally am not a fan of the pellets AT ALL but I know some like them. Go ahead and feed it to them but I would get cheap grass hay from some farmer down the road and give it to them at all times. That way they get the feed they need, good stuff from the alfalfa pellets, as well as the long fiber that goat MUST have to live.

We feed Lespadeza hay... free choice... AND alfalfa pellets free choice

 

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The Lespadeza is not a pelleted hay, its a baled hay.