Re: Goat pasture. What to do with waste hay?
- From: Larry Caldwell <firstnamelastinitial@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:19:37 -0700
In article <44b89530$0$21686$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-
01.iinet.net.au>, please@askifyouwannaknow (Farm1) says...
But goats are browsers not really grass eaters. They like to eat
bushes ans shrubs and are less interested in grass that bushes. Your
vet should know that.
I raised goats for a while about 30 years ago. One summer I took the
straw spreader off the combine and baled the wheat straw for goat
bedding. It had a lot of chaff it it, and was sweet, bright straw with
no rain. Running through the combine cylinder was like running it
through a hay conditioner. When you broke a bale in the winter, the
smell of summer came right up and hit you in the face. The goats loved
it. They ate half of every bale and bedded down in the rest. The dry
roughage kept their rumen in shape while the pasture was cold, wet and
heavy. They were very contented little girls. One alpine doe milked
over 4000 lbs. the next year, and another beat 3800 lbs.
If dry grass or straw gets rained on, the sugars wash out of the
foliage, but if you catch it right, it's goat candy. Add protein and
minerals.
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