Can anyone tell me the best way to feed sugarbeet cubes?
I used to feed them to cattle without soaking and to horses well-soaked. I think I have heard that goats like them drenched with hot water and fed still warm but I cannot remember who told me!
At the moment my two GGs are on sheep mix and Just Grass morning and evening at milking time with ad-lib hay and any forage I can cut, at the moment mostly nettles, brambles, willow etc. I want to give a sugarbeet feed midday now it is finally getting colder. Does this seem right?
Also, should I get a feed supplement, like Caprivite? One is a goatling just mated and the other an in-milk first kidder, also just mated. I plan to dry her off in February, she is due to kid in late April. She is only giving 2 pints maximum per day, which is all we need, so I don't think she is depleting herself yet.
Any advice welcome, please.
Hi Re. sugarbeet, My goats have a handfull of beet shreds midday, Cheaper than pellets!!!
Re. Supplements , Rockies, Red for Copper, Yellow for Cobalt, they lick what they want. these blocks are salt based so will rot any metal trough or metal gate, plastic containers are best, but they are not weather proof.