Title: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on August 12, 2007, 01:32:07 PM Our goats are fed pig crumble for their concentrates because it works the best in terms of protein,in the process now of planting corn,soyabeans,whole wheat,barley.mongobeans,soyabeans having more protein than mongobeans.I would like to know what ratio I need to mix 100 kilos at a time,how much corn kilos to whole wheat and barley and soyabeans will add salt,brown sugar,oyster shell,dried seaweed.
Support The Goat//////////////////////////////////////////////////mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: nemo on August 13, 2007, 11:42:05 AM Greetings!
I am not that good in nutrition but i could give you a formula taken from one of the books in goat farming here. Corn = 12 kgs ricebran=24kgs Copra=40 kgs soy meal=8 kg meat and bone= 10 kgs molasses= 5 kgs salt= 1kgs it should be given at 0.2-0.8 kg per head Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on August 13, 2007, 12:57:16 PM Nemo,thank-you for your help,we should be able to make a good concentrates formula with the information you have given,as for the importing of terminal sire(s),I will try Austrade in Manila,looking for a special breed that is not in the Philippines yet,we are in Region 7 uplands people and the Govt. office here cannot help us. Thanks For Your Help and Support The Goat mikey
Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: nemo on August 13, 2007, 01:18:43 PM Your welcome.
I would try to look for further information for importing and i will send it to you if i find one. Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on August 14, 2007, 02:45:50 AM Mr.Nemo,thank-you for your help.
Have a nice day and Support the Goat mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on October 31, 2007, 04:38:32 PM Doc.Nemo,here in N.America dairy animals are given silage to help them produce more milk,wondering if silage is common in the Philippines.
Good Day and SUPPORT THE GOAT mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: nemo on November 01, 2007, 12:05:43 AM Silage is given here for fattening cattle, usually big cattle ranch do this.
They use a big plastic to cover all the grasses so it will ferment. IN other country they use silo or a tank where they put all the materials. From a far it looks like a black hills and inside it is the silage Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on November 01, 2007, 12:53:22 AM Doc,cattle fattening,interesting,may try this ourselves.
Good Day mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on November 05, 2007, 10:58:06 AM Doc,does one need to cook all the grains first for goats also??
Thanks mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: nemo on November 05, 2007, 12:59:11 PM To be honest i am not sure. BUt i do believe that you do not need to coked it for ruminant. They can digest it better compared to monogastric animals like swine.
Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on November 06, 2007, 02:57:12 AM Thanks Doc. I understand, Good Day mikey
Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on November 15, 2007, 08:23:14 AM This may be of some help to other producers:alto we have tried this ourselves with only limited sucess it is taken from SALT 2 Technlogies:
Concentrates (high energy) Dairy goats Give them feeds in the morning and in the afternoon 18% first class rice bran 23% corn,grain or rice 21% copra meal 36% ipil-ipil leaf meal 1% limestone A good forage mixture 55% desmondium rensonii 20% congesta 20% gliricidia sepium 5% ipil-ipil Goats given daily rate of forage at least 10% of their body weight.Half in the morning and the other half in the afternoon,provide your goats with salt and plenty of water every day. When using the cut and carry system,be careful when cutting during the rainy season,best to cut greens above knee level,reason,worms on the plants,the rainy season is a problem for all goat producers. Independant producer region 7 mikey Title: Re: goat diet (concentrates) Post by: mikey on November 15, 2007, 01:31:55 PM In Asia agriculture in the future,there will be an ever-increasing need to maximize production from limited resources.Cut-and-carry animal production systems show great potential,while the use of nitrogen-fixing forage crops will make those systems more productive and sustainable.
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