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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Baois Glas on June 21, 2015, 12:07:46 pm

Title: What is your goats favourite treat?
Post by: Baois Glas on June 21, 2015, 12:07:46 pm: We've recently got our goats, and would like to give them a little treat after milking, but they don't seem keen on carrot or apple.
What do you give your goats?
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Post by: Melmarsh on June 21, 2015, 12:21:57 pm: Hi !! Firstly enjoy your goats, brilliant animals :love: my females loved a rich tea biscuit atbed time but I had males, one of whomloved hula hoops, I would put them on my fingers and he would gently remove them and gobble them up. I have to admit that there were lots of thing that they all loved ,:- jacket potatoes left over and cold, bananas with skins on , corn on the cob, cob and green, tortillas, grapes, peaches, the boys would take the whole thing then spit the stone out !!! Lots really anything I could get from my local pick your own, who put by anything they thought was past its sell by date. Goats loved it all!!!! :sunshine:
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Post by: kelly58 on June 21, 2015, 02:25:02 pm: Except onions, spuds and salty treats, not good. Enjoy your goaties :goat: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Treud na Mara on June 21, 2015, 03:58:58 pm: Ours love 'horse treats', no more than one a day though !
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Post by: Tree Farmer on June 21, 2015, 04:29:36 pm: As special treats my girls love rich tea biscuits (the finger shaped ones are ideal!) or cream crackers. I give them bananas too - sliced into discs, skin and all.
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Post by: Anke on June 21, 2015, 06:22:29 pm: My goats love carrots, apples (most of them), any kind of cabbage, pears, bananas etc. -- BUT the best treat of all is oat cakes. Just rattling the cellophane wrapper has got them all standing to attention!
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Post by: Daisys Mum on June 21, 2015, 09:38:49 pm: Mine get half a hob nob biscuit at bed time!
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on June 21, 2015, 11:10:34 pm: Two ginger nut biscuits after milking. I've started bringing my in-kid goat in to stand on the milking bench. It's seven months since I last milked her but, before she'd get down, she looked at the biscuit tin expectantly.

I did have a goat who loved salted peanuts.

Apple, banana, any fruit really. Biscuits, bread, carrot, but mostly they have horse treats.
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Post by: laurelrus on June 22, 2015, 07:13:21 am: Apples and carrots are always happily eaten as well as digestives as a treat, but their favourite is dried apricots!
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Post by: Baois Glas on June 22, 2015, 11:55:42 am: Thanks all, I tried them with a digestive biscuit this morning but they weren't interested, think I have fussy girls!