I've been feeding my lactating does DuMor Sweet Feed for a couple of years. I add BOSS and top dress it with kelp. Quite often, the does will leave behind the pelleted part of the feed. Umbarger makes a dairy goat feed and doesn't really have pellete
Read more…Okay, folks, I made a rookie mistake today and didn't brace the barn door so the goats couldn't go through the bar to where I had the hens loose - and the door to the pen open. I went out to ascertain the hens were headed to the roost. Lo and behol
Read more…We are making a wooden hay feeder and I was wondering how high we should place the feeder. We are building a shelf w/lip underneath it to catch any hay that will drop and making a small trough type area that they will hopefully eat the dropped hay fr
Read more…Well great, Penny is 4weeks and 2 days and all of a sudden Butter wants no hay or feed, she wouldn't even get up and come out in the pen today, that I know of (unfortunately I was gone almost all day with my mom to Dr, cause she almost died week befo
Read more…Sigh . . . apparently Purina has created another Noble Goat feed in addition to the medicated feed that is already pretty popular. It is not medicated and is made specifically for goats in milk. It's called Noble Goat Lactation High Fiber, and here i
Read more…I know there are way too many questions out there about feeding, but here is another one! I have one 35 lb buck , one 26.5 lb wether and two does 24 lbs and 25.5 lbs, all of them about 4 months old. They boys are in one area and the girls in anothe
Read more…Hello, Another newbie here! My husband have a small farmette in SW Wisconsin with 13 chickens, 10 steers, 1 spoiled cat, and we'll soon be adding 2 little registered ND doelings. We moved here from IL last august. I found this forum yesterday and hav
Read more…Hey there all, I'm new here, and I guess I need to introduce myself a bit before posing my question.
I'm from Alaska, and my husband and I have a home there, in a very small town. We're currently living in New Orleans, but we'll be returning to Alask
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