Vinegar In Your Goat Concentrates:

I have just red where some people who like to raise their goats in a natural manner,have found that 2 tablespoons of vinegar to 1 pound or 454 grams of concentrates 2 times a day everyday.He is part of that story.
It worked! By the fifth day our patient was eating normally, the milk was nearly clear and the rough coat and dull eyes were gone for good. We started using our new doe's output on the seventh day and were pleased with the rich, sweet flavor ... her milk has never tasted "goaty".

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Darlene (the Alpine) loved the vinegar and didn't want the grain without it. The other goats started getting the same dose—you bet!—and total production rose even though the Nubian was due to dry up. In fact, I had to take her off grain and vinegar to stop her lactation.

Then I made a big mistake. After nine months of terrific milk production and an easy mating (Darlene had always been very hard to breed before, since she stayed in heat only six to eight hours), I dried the Alpine up as I had the other nanny. Because she was a little too fat I decided to cut the grain out of her diet ... and in so doing I got careless about the vinegar.

The doe was in blooming good health and looked ready to have quadruplets. She freshened easily with two delightful and devilish buck kids—very large and active—and I was thrilled.

At that point the result of my mistake became clear. Within 24 hours Darlene had raving mastitis, and the kids had to be removed for fear they'd get sick from her milk. I restarted the vinegar at once, along with every herb and plant I could offer her. She took comfrey with relish, and little else ... except the vinegar grain, which she ate with frantic speed. I mixed more of the acid in warm water with molasses, and my poor doe drank it in sobbing gulps.

That treatment stopped the mastitis cold, without vets or antibiotics. Darlene was well in three days, the kids were returned to her and the milk was perfectly normal.

My goat will never again pass a day without her dose of vinegar ... and neither will I. Darlene also gets fresh tomatoes, comfrey, cornstalks, leaves and a hundred other fresh, natural foods from the garden. When she bloats a little from a new bale of hay, I give her an armful of mint sprigs. It works. I just put all the feed where she can get it and let her choose.

The fresh or dry tops of onions and garlic are a special treat for the goats ... when the animals aren't in production (because such food makes their milk taste pretty bad). I grow stock beets, pumpkins and soybeans just for the herd, and the does repay me with terrific milk and large healthy kids that don't need pampering and sterile conditions to survive.