Goats output the greatest amount of energy for any agricultural animal for their relative size

N.S.W. Branch Dairy Goat Society of Australia inc.

 

Workforce - Dolermite, seaweed meal and livermol (mineral mix)

Mix - Lucerne chaf, oaten chaf, whole oats, breeder (horse pellets) and bran

MILKERS

Morning - 1 cup mix

                 - 1 cup barley

                 - 1 handful coconut meal

                 - 1 handful cracked corn

                 - 1 tub workforce

 

Afternoon - 4 scoops mix

                    - 3 cups SR barley

                    - 2 cups coconut meal

                    - 2 handfuls cracked corn

                    - 2 tubs workforce

 

KIDS        - ½ cup mix

                 - 1 handful SR barley

                 - 1 handful coconut meal

                 - 1 tub workforce

(introduce this diet slowly after 1 week of age)

 

GOATLINGS  - 2 scoops mix

                           - 1½ handfuls SR barley

                           - 1 handful coconut meal

                           - 1 handfuls cracked corn

                           - 1 tub workforce

 

 

 

A Typical Diet of Hand Fed Milkers