[ballingall]

Ours are like that with dairy nuts too. They never seem to continuely eat dairy nuts no matter how much we preserve. That's why our basic mix is a ewe mix and the dairy nuts are as well as that. With goat mix for the milkers too.


Beth

[Lesley Silvester]

Does rather give the lie to the generally held belief that goats eat anything.

[shygirl]

at the minute they have a big bucket or calf rearer nuts (they dont manage the bigger rolls very well) and a separate big bucket of apple chaff with soaked sugarbeet. and adlib haylage. i have oil to add to the feed when i decide which bucket  theres a red rockies salt lick.
caprivite will be ordered next week (from ascotts?) and apart from a high energy molasses (sheep or cattle?) lick i cant see what else i can do.
they get out for a few hours per day to graze and get fruit / veggie scraps. plenty of bananas atm ...lol
i looked at the cow vitamin drenches in the farm shop but it was out-of-date by a year  , £30 for a small new bottle but i will have to order it in.
she is costing more than my cows to feed at this rate but she is a little love.

wish i was this skinny    actually out of 6 goats only one is skinny. have i missed anything?

[Lesley Silvester]

The best place to get Caprivite is from http://gnltd.co.uk/.

[shygirl]

thanks, thats alot cheaper.

[Penninehillbilly]

I get a local equine supplier to order mine, so i didn't have to pay delivery. google 'caprivite' and then 'Battles' as a supplier website, they have a list of local suppliers, pick someone near and see if they will order it in. I tried Brinicombes but 1 goat in particular wouldn't eat up, and as I increased the daily amount the others started to play with their food, so went back to Caprivite.