Feeding kids

As usual, I never know exactly where to put my posts.  Anyway...how much grain should three 9 week old kids be eating (combined)? Two are bucklings and are weaned (sold their mama three days ago) and one is the single doe of a FF. They eat hay and they eat any grain I put in their "creep stall". However, they will not touch alfalfa pellets. These are all hale and hearty kids. I've been giving them 1/2 cup 16% to split AM and PM. Enough? Too much?

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  • Thank you! I asked for the right thing at the feed store, but I could NOT remember what it was when I was typing last night!! lol

  • It's ammonium chloride -- not aluminum --

    http://www.hoeggerfarmyard.com/xcart/Ammonium-Chloride-2-lbs..html

    but I'm sure you can find it in other places also.

  • I'm having trouble getting aluminium chloride to put in my boy's feed... any ideas? (and did I even SPELL that right!?)

  • I learned my lesson feeding too much grain to a male goat.  My goat needed surgery to have a stone cut out of his urine track.  Some goats are prone to urinary calculi.  I also make sure I feed medicated feed to the boys and they only get 1/4 cup grain each and plenty of hay as I do no have a place for them to graze or pick.

  • Do you means 1/2 cup for each feeding or both combined (so 1/4 cup for each feeding)? Either would probably be okay for the doe, but I'd only give the bucks 1/4 cup each feeding because of urinary calculi. Don't worry about the alfalfa pellets if they're getting good quality hay.

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