Last winter I didn't get a heat lamp and every morning I would go outside to feed and my goats would be huddled in a corner shivering. So I got a heat lamp from a friend. It got about 20 degrees from about 9 pm to about 9 am, then it would get about 40 degrees the rest of the day till that night. Of course their was warm days and then really really cold days. But that was about the average. They said it's gonna be a better winter this year. Meaning more rain, because we barely got any rain the past two years. So I was just wondering if I should get a heat lamp or just have them wear their blankets. My cousin just gave me some blankets this summer (so I didn't have them last winter). They haven't been getting a thick fur coat like I wish they would, they didn't have a very thick one the past two winters. The picture is about as thick as they got. (not the best picture)
You need to be a member of Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats to add comments!
Replies
Okay... I found that purina Goat chow minerals have high copper amount and TSC has it. The local feed stores charge outrageous prices. That's why I don't go to them LOL Thanks Rachel
I live in Oregon, but Sweetlix is a pretty common mineral company. You might ask your local feed store if they can get it. I actually use a different mineral company, a local one. It's got even higher copper content than sweetlix. I don't think shipping is terribly expensive for the sweetlix from Jeffers online.
Dumor goat block has 22.000 PPM copper and purina goat chow minerals has 18000.000PPM copper
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
Trish said:
Rachel where are you located? I have never seen that product where I live and the shipping would probably not be worth getting them shipped?
Block minerals can be hard for goats to get what they actually need and properly self regulate them. They are usually high in sodium, which complicates how they eat them. Using a loose mineral is usually a better way to go. "Liking" a mineral isn't necessarily a good thing if this simply means that they eat more. In general, once goats have gotten their minerals balanced within their systems, they tend to eat less of them in loose form. Often, they will eat a lot of them up front if they are deficient, and then back off on consumption once they have restored balance. Offering minerals in free choice, loose form is usually the suggested way to offer them. Another thing you need to be concerned about in feeding minerals not species specific, is that often, the mineral content isn't correct for the species you are feeding. For example, a sheep mineral is very low in copper. Goats, however, need very high copper content in their minerals, so feeding sheep specific minerals to goats can cause copper deficiency issues. A common mineral that seem to best service goats is Sweetlix Meat Maker loose mineral. It has 1,810ppm copper content. http://www.sweetlix.com/products/C14A34/meat-maker-products.aspx
I buy the TSC horse block it has more minerals and my goats like it better than the goat block.
Yeah, well we just started getting rain, and the rain is about every third day.
There is an expiration date on the bottle of goat dewormer. They usually start getting a thicker coat as the weather starts to get colder. Of course that varies from one part of the country (or world) to another.
Sophia A. Heimberg said:
I already have a mineral feeder with two slots in it, but mount on the wall. I have one random question. Does liquid Goat dewormer go bad? An how early should they get their winter coat?
-
1
-
2
-
3
of 3 Next