what to feed alpine goats?

Question

I have an Alpine goat, I'm feeding it oats and hay, what is the best diet to feed her

Answer 1

What are you doing with her? This HUGELY affects her feed. What age, stage of production, etc. she is in. There's a BIG DIFFERENCE between feeding a young kid for show, a pet doing nothing and a doe milking 15 pounds a day. And big difference still if it's a wether.
For a pet with no breeding or growing you can get by on that. For a show prospect you'll need good quality hay and a 16% growing feed you can buy commercially. Dairy animals need plenty of feed to maintain their production and body weight, especially Alpines as some tend to milk down quite a bit. Find a good dairy feed for milkers and feed according to directions. Grass hay with a little alfalfa is good for growing kids and milkers. No alfalfa for bucks or wethers.

Answer 2

You can get a goat mix, or just what they call 4 Way. About 2 cups per day, plus a good pat of quality hay... If she gets pregnant, you increase the 4-Way gradually to 2 cups twice per day.
Just be certain that she always has cool water.

If you want to feed her vegetable trimmings that is fine too. Just no cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussell sprouts or onions.

Answer 3

Goat Farming from TCE Standard


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Goats (family Bovidae, genus Capra), ruminant mammals with backwardly arching hollow horns, short tail and usually straight hair, are related to SHEEP but are of slighter build. Goats were domesticated as early as 7000 BC and have provided humans with food (milk, cheese, butter), leather and mohair. They were probably introduced with sheep by early settlers in New France. Goats are now raised in every province except Newfoundland, but are most popular in Ontario (about 45% of the goats registered in 1986 were in that province), BC (16%) and Québec (18%).

There are 4 kinds of breeding operations: for industrial milk production (milk is sold to processing plants for cheese making), for farm cheese production (sold by the producer), for meat production (meat is a byproduct for milk producers, but some breeders specialize in the production of slaughter goats) and for mohair wool production. Goats fall into 3 categories: nonregistered (grade) goat, the pedigree is either unknown or unregistered, or its parents are not registered; registered goat (Canadian), the mother's pedigree is unknown or unregistered but the father's pedigree is registered; registered goat, the pedigree can be traced back to the first goats imported to Canada. Five milk breeds are important in Canada: Alpine (of the 48 343 goats registered in Canada to 31 Dec 1986, 1842 were Alpine), Nubian or Anglo-Nubian (948), Saanen (441), Toggenburg (409) and La Mancha (54). Two breeds, Angora and Cashmere, are raised mainly for wool. In goat breeding, each animal is identified and a register is kept of its birth date, breed and sex, identification number, breeding, kidding and weaning dates, vaccinations, antivermin treatments and milk-control reports.

The doe matures at 3 months but must not be bred before it is 7-9 months old; it reproduces once a year. Artificial insemination enables a large number of females to be impregnated with the sperm of a highly bred buck. The average gestation period is 5 months (153 days). The doe has 2 mammary glands. Diet, lactation stage, number of lactations, health and herd management are the major factors influencing milk production. Genetic improvement of the goat population is essential. Selection involves eliminating imperfect animals and keeping well-formed ones (body, hooves, pelvis, limbs, udders). A table for classifying the physical conformation of goats has been developed by the Canadian Goat Society in Fergus, Ont. Genetic selection also includes breeding characteristics (eating habits, fertility, prolificness) and milk-production characteristics, both quantitative and qualitative. Quantitatively, production increases 200 kg between the first and third lactations; this level is maintained between the third and seventh lactations and then declines. Qualitative aspects involve the levels of nitrogen and bytyrin in the milk.

Goats are fed twice daily; fodder makes up 72% of the daily intake of dry feed. Goats are very selective and like leaves and young sprouts. They prefer rolled cereals or concentrated nutrients in tablet form over finely ground grains. Like other ruminants they can digest foods rich in cellulose and then metabolize the volatile fatty acids. The Canadian Goat Society, founded in 1917, is the registry agency.

Answer 4

If the pigs are off milk feed them consistent alfalfa depending pellets and consistent alfalfa depending hay. even as they are over six months swap to timothy depending products. provide your guinea pigs clean water each day. For extra health information flow to youtube and watch videos by utilizing skinnypigs1.

Answer 5

alpine grass?