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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Beeducked on June 28, 2014, 12:33:06 am

Title: Treats for goats.
Post by: Beeducked on June 28, 2014, 12:33:06 am

Have recently rehomed 4 lovely girls who are settling in very nicely. Now 3 of them love the horsey tasty treats that someone recommended but the other is just not interested.


So what do people give their goats as little treats, bribes or rewards or just something to tempt them as they could do with putting on a little weight?

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: mojocafa on June 28, 2014, 06:29:07 am

Dried. Banana :banana: :banana:

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: tizaala on June 28, 2014, 08:05:06 am

Watermelon rind , ours go mad for it.

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: plumseverywhere on June 28, 2014, 10:15:01 am

jacobs crackers, banana, bindweed, roses (flowers not chocolates), pumpkins (they spend ages kicking it round and eating bits off)

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: shygirl on June 28, 2014, 11:34:30 am

strawberry leaves, melon peel, lettuce.

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Pipsa on June 28, 2014, 04:19:06 pm

Willow branches and Rich Tea biscuits (:

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: little blue on June 28, 2014, 06:08:53 pm

blackberries (especially funny if they have light coloured faces - looks like they've got lipstick on!!)
bramble - leaves & stems.
bananas, raisons, sultanas, sunflower seeds, maize, cornflakes!
bread (naughty!)
pears, nectarines, kiwi.

Pineapple seems to be an acquired taste.. ;)

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on June 28, 2014, 10:50:24 pm

Mine go mad for ginger nut biscuits.

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Beeducked on June 28, 2014, 10:57:46 pm

Thanks everyone, will try Rosie on some of those and see what she likes. :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: kelly58 on June 29, 2014, 09:35:46 am

Apples, willow herb, flowering currant bush, carrots cut into batons  :roflanim: fresh bananas cut into pieces.
 :goat:

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Anke on June 30, 2014, 03:00:06 pm

Oat cakes, only Nairns' though... (no animal fat in them).

PLus of course most of the above. Never tried water melon, but then we cannot grow it and I don't buy it.

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: shygirl on June 30, 2014, 06:46:55 pm

Quote from: kelly58 on June 29, 2014, 09:35:46 am

carrots cut into batons  :roflanim: fresh bananas cut into pieces.

i think they are training you   :roflanim:   

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: little blue on June 30, 2014, 07:07:20 pm

round carrots can be a choking risk - batons are much safer

(sometimes think "odd facts about goats & chickens" would be my topic on Mastermind!!) ;)

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Anke on June 30, 2014, 07:39:08 pm

Quote from: little blue on June 30, 2014, 07:07:20 pm

round carrots can be a choking risk - batons are much safer

Agree. Always cut mine too. Also cut apples into slices, but give them bananas in halves, after feeding the peel separately. I have a goat that prefer the peel to the real thing.

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: shygirl on June 30, 2014, 07:46:32 pm

i know - just jesting  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Treats for goats.
Post by: Beeducked on June 30, 2014, 10:16:05 pm

Looking forward to trying some of these with my girls. :P


Interestingly the lady who didn't seem to like the horsey treats seems to have acquired the taste for them! Think she felt left out. ::)  After watching the other 3 mug me for them she tried one last night, chewed it for a bit and then spat it out ::) . Today she was front of the queue for them and the one who almost knocked me off my stool trying to sneak the crumbs out of my pocket! She's a funny madam and defiantly is determined to stay aloof from the shenanigans of the others until she realises it means she's missing out!  :innocent: