Most dry dog foods contain corn and other grains along with meat products, which makes kibble very tempting to goats and sheep. "Scrapies" is a serious degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by giving feeds containing meat by-products to ruminants like goats, sheep and cattle. You may have heard of "mad cow disease". This disease is the main reason it is so difficult and expensive to import breeding stock from the US to Canada. Please don't do it.
You'll probably get more discussion if you post questions in the forum. The blog area is really for things like updates on your goats and personal stories.
But to answer your question -- dog food is NOT good for goats at all because it has meat in it, and goats are vegetarians. Your little guy needs solid food, so you should be providing him with hay or grass. It really is time for him to be leaving the house. Like I said in my other post, that's when our first house goat started eating paper.
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Most dry dog foods contain corn and other grains along with meat products, which makes kibble very tempting to goats and sheep. "Scrapies" is a serious degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by giving feeds containing meat by-products to ruminants like goats, sheep and cattle. You may have heard of "mad cow disease". This disease is the main reason it is so difficult and expensive to import breeding stock from the US to Canada. Please don't do it.
You'll probably get more discussion if you post questions in the forum. The blog area is really for things like updates on your goats and personal stories.
But to answer your question -- dog food is NOT good for goats at all because it has meat in it, and goats are vegetarians. Your little guy needs solid food, so you should be providing him with hay or grass. It really is time for him to be leaving the house. Like I said in my other post, that's when our first house goat started eating paper.