Feed? 4h market goat

[sawilliams]

I'm more looking for suggestions for feeds. I've been trying to research, but our fair date had been moved up for next year by almost 3 months so i'm in a little more of a time crunch then I anticipated. Our leader had us use sunglo last year but lamb instead of goat becuase of the higher protein 18%. I'm trying to find a goat feed instead as the sunglo goat is very dry and powdery towards the bottom of the bag. I would prefer organic but given the prices over seen it's not a deal breaker.

What goat feeds do you like? For meat/market goats? They will be 6-7 months at fair min 70 pound with 10 pound gain in 60 days, no max weight capped payout at 105 pound

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Are you a member of the goat spot forums? You might find good answers there.

 

[cassie]

Whether the feed is organic is not important. Whether it is well balanced and the goat will eat it is. No matter what you feed this animal make sure it is vaccinated for enterotoxemia. Entero strikes suddenly and kills very quickly. Get a vial of CD/T at the feed store or livestock supply and administer it if you haven't already done so. In addition, a bottle of clostridium perfingens antitoxin would be cheap insurance to have on hand. Clostridium perfingens is the organism that causes of entero. You probably know that but I decided to mention it in case you didn't. In all the years I had goats, two things I ALWAYS had on hand were clostridium perfingens antitoxin to treat entero and GasX for bloat. Both are true emergencies and prompt treatment is essential to save the animal's life.

 

[sawilliams]

Are you a member of the goat spot forums? You might find good answers there.

No i'm not but I'll look into it

Whether the feed is organic is not important. Whether it is well balanced and the goat will eat it is. No matter what you feed this animal make sure it is vaccinated for enterotoxemia. Entero strikes suddenly and kills very quickly. Get a vial of CD/T at the feed store or livestock supply and administer it if you haven't already done so. In addition, a bottle of clostridium perfingens antitoxin would be cheap insurance to have on hand. Clostridium perfingens is the organism that causes of entero. You probably know that but I decided to mention it in case you didn't. In all the years I had goats, two things I ALWAYS had on hand were clostridium perfingens antitoxin to treat entero and GasX for bloat. Both are true emergencies and prompt treatment is essential to save the animal's life.

Yes I know a little about that but we are not breeding yet and so far all our goats have already had their cd&t before we got them.