[Beeducked]

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?

[mojocafa]

Dried. Banana

[tizaala]

Watermelon rind , ours go mad for it.

[plumseverywhere]

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

[shygirl]

strawberry leaves, melon peel, lettuce.

[Pipsa]

Willow branches and Rich Tea biscuits (:

[little blue]

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..

[Lesley Silvester]

Mine go mad for ginger nut biscuits.

[Beeducked]

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

[kelly58]

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

[Anke]

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.

[shygirl]

carrots cut into batons  fresh bananas cut into pieces.

i think they are training you      

[little blue]

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

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

[Anke]

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.

[shygirl]

i know - just jesting