okay so we have a young male goat, I think he is a pygmy bore cross but he may be a full pygmy by the looks of him growing. We have had him a little under two months. He lives in the house with our dogs and sleeps in a crate in the living room at night. When we first got him it was so cold out yet I was afraid to put him out for fear that something would happen to him, that was how he started out in the house. But now he is house broken and frankly is better behaved then our dogs most times. He sleeps on the end of the bed when we watch TV and is just a great pet. Basically if he does not get any bigger, which he seems to have stopped growing it is probably gonna be a permanent living arrangement.
Sounds great right but here is the problem, we have two auto feeders for our weiner dogs that hold 3lbs of food each. This works great and usually is no problem at all. I got one of these feeders and put goat feed in it for Skeeter, the goat too. Worked great the first few weeks but now he has decided that he likes the dog food better then anything else, even lettuce we try to give him. Could I try to limit how much he gets but it can be very hard to without making sure there just is no feed out when he is lose in the house, which is when ever we are home and not sleeping. So pretty much most of the time. The feed is Kibbles and Bits home style beef. At first he seemed to only be eating the green pieces (the veggie parts I think) but now he eats it all. Could the dog food hurt him? I am really worried but I can't seem to find anyone that seems to know of I should be or not.
Sounds great right but here is the problem, we have two auto feeders for our weiner dogs that hold 3lbs of food each. This works great and usually is no problem at all. I got one of these feeders and put goat feed in it for Skeeter, the goat too. Worked great the first few weeks but now he has decided that he likes the dog food better then anything else, even lettuce we try to give him. Could I try to limit how much he gets but it can be very hard to without making sure there just is no feed out when he is lose in the house, which is when ever we are home and not sleeping. So pretty much most of the time. The feed is Kibbles and Bits home style beef. At first he seemed to only be eating the green pieces (the veggie parts I think) but now he eats it all. Could the dog food hurt him? I am really worried but I can't seem to find anyone that seems to know of I should be or not.
