What to Feed Goats
Among all the ruminants, goats are only the animals which can eat and consume almost all types of food. So, if you are planning for starting goat farming business, then you don't have to think much about what to feed goat. Because you can raise goats by providing them all types of natural, home or commercially formulated goat feed. Nowadays goat farming is becoming very popular because of it's multifunctional utility. We can get many goat products like meat, milk, skins, fiber, manner etc. from them. But the profitable production from goat farming business mostly depends on proper feed supply and management systems. Proper feed management includes providing nutritious food, vitamins, minerals, energy, protein etc. So, before starting goat farming business it is a must to learn about how to and what to feed goat. Read flowing step by step goat feed management system.
is very necessary to make a pasture for your goats, where they can
browse freely and eat food from there. By browsing pasture, your goats
will remain healthy and will get sufficient and necessary food elements
like energy and protein. Natural food from pasture also helps the goats
increasing the tastiness and digestibility of other foods. A pasture
with natural plants and grasses like millet, Sudan grasses, Bahia
grasses, grain grass mixture, clover, sorghum etc. are very healthy and
effective for goats production and health. In pasture if the goats can
browse freely then it will help them to keep free from various internal
and external parasitical diseases.
is another important source of goat nutrition, especially in winter
seasons. Feed your goats mold free qualified grasses based hay. You can
also feed your goats weedy hay because it is very cheap and contain a
large amount of necessary nutrition. There are various types of hays are
available. Among those lespedeza, alfalfa and clover hays are highly
enriched in protein and some other essential nutrients.
Presence of vitamins and minerals in goat feed is a must. Because, vitamins and minerals keeps the goat productive and help them preventing various types of diseases. They need a lot of vitamins and minerals ingredients in their food. Some feed elements like phosphorus, salt and calcium are very useful minerals for goats. You can provide a premix of loose minerals, because goats prefer that very much. For proper growth and production, they also need some vitamins like Vitamin A, D, and E. So, while feeding your goats, be sure that all those elements are available in their regular and daily food.
sufficient natural goat feed is not available in your location then you
can feed your goat 12% to 16% grainy formulated food to your goats. You
should provide creep and complementary feeding to the kids. Grain is a
great source of carbons and protein. Rye, oats, moil, corn, barley etc.
are cereal grains and highly enriched with carbon, and energy. Cottons
meal, soybean meal, fish meal and some other protein supplements
formulated from animals and plants are suitable source of protein for