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Goat Nutrition & Care

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Feed

Our goats always have FRESH Water & Free Choice Orchard Grass Hay along with Pasture to graze in.
​Our hay comes from Double K Farms in Burlington, WA. We love that they test all their hay and the quality is always spot on!
​Does in milk get free choice Alfalfa Pellets we feed in hog feeders. We use HAYSTACK brand Alfalfa Pellets.
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Orchard Hay
Double K Farms, Burlington, WA
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Alfalfa Pellets

Grain

Milking Does get grain on the stand AM & PM while we milk them. We make our own mix containing:
  • Purina Dairy Goat
  • Haystack Special Blend
  • DRY COBB (corn, oats, & barley)
  • BOSS (Black Oil Sunflower Seeds)
  • Field Peas
  • We occasionally use Triple Crown Oil Blend as a topper on their grain, for does who need a little extra healthy fats included in their daily supplements.
Bucks get grain 1x per day, and kids get grain free choice till 6 months old. We mix their feed as well:
  • 1 bag of Haystack Special Blend pellets to 1 bag of Purina GROWER/MEAT GOAT (this is a medicated feed)
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Purina Dairy Goat
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Purina Meat Goat/ Grower
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Haystack Special Blend
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DRY C.O.B.B.
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BOSS
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
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Split Field Peas

Free Choice Minerals

  • Sweetlix Meat Maker loose minerals
  • Kelp (Thorvin)
  • ZinPro 40
  • Baking Soda (does only)
  • Vitalix GOAT Tub

Kid Care

  • Pregnant does are given CD&T 4 weeks prior to giving birth. This will allow the dam to pass immunity of clostridia and tetanus to her kids.
  • At 4-7 days old we disbud kids.
  • Kids get Toltrazuril 5% (Baycox) to help prevent coccidiosis at 3, 6, 9, & 12 weeks old. They are given 1ml per 5lbs body weight.
  • At 8 & 11 weeks, kids get CD&T toxid.

Biosecurity

We test our goats through WADDL for CL, CAE, & Johne's. Everyone is NEGATIVE :)