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Ok. Perhaps an odd question. lol Can goat manure, like rabbit pellets, get thrown in a garden fresh from the goat's butt? With the horses and chickens you have to let it decompose a bit, but with rabbit turds you can take them right after they've been dropped and throw them in for your plants and voila-- magic. I wonder if goats are the same? Hm.

Goat berries, just like rabbit berries can go straight into your garden. My gardens loves both varieties. I just rake the goat berries up with the waste hay and use it as mulch. In the winter I load up the gardens with this and mix it in with the dirt for organic matter.

Regarding using a round of coastal I put my round on a pallet and pull off the hay I want for the goats. That way I don't worry about them climbing on it, pooping on it and messing it up so that no animal wants to eat it. I also use the coastal for my rabbits. I do like how @Baymule does her round with the panels and tarp. Somewhere she has a picture of the setup. Maybe she'll be a sweetie and post the picture here too for you.

I'm in North Central Texas, Erath County. If you have any questions I'd be more that pleased to try and answer them... goats or rabbits. I have Nigerian Dwarfs goats and California rabbits... and chickens and geese and dogs. You are welcome to come by and see how I do things. I find seeing will often prompt questions and the more questions you can get answers for the better informed you are.

I buy round bales of costal and put it under a shelter on a pallet and pull off and put into feeders same as @animalmom

Oooooh my goodness, @animalmom I would LOVE to come see how you do things! We're putting an offer on a house in Kempner (near Lampasas and Copperas Cove). I have chickens already, but plan on getting some Californian rabbits and some Nigerian Dwarf goats (whether I end up there or elsewhere lol).

Here ya' go. A picture is always better! Once they eat it down, I have to pull hay to the cow panels, as they can't reach the middle. Also have to tilt the tarp to let rain water run off. @animalmom

So clever! I like that whole idea! I'm all about ease. Lol You don't have issues with them jumping on that and then jumping out, I take it?

Keep in mind goats and sheep are different. We use round bales but store in one location and pull off what we need and take it (in a big trash can) to where it needs to go.
Moldy hay can kill a goat. Cattle and sheep seem to do just fine with their hay sitting out... goats do not.
Goats are more like horses in that way. Good clean, dry hay.

Awesome, thanks for that info. My boss gets really nice horse quality hay for a discount (big horse ranch, tons of feed each week), maybe I'll have her throw in some bales of that for me.
Are they sensitive to sand in the way horses are? My thoughts with this are going towards all the loose hay we rake up from the hay pallets. We don't feed it to the horses because of the sand that blows in it. Only feed it to the cattle on the occasions we have any.

And from what I've read, a single goat needs about 1-2lbs of hay a day and supplement with a 12-18% grain. We measure a flake at about 5lbs. So about a third of a flake a day per goat? That seems like so little. Hmm. Does that all seem correct?

It is best to have hay available 24/7.

As far as the sand... I don't know... can't imagine that it could be good for them though.
Spent hay that falls gets raked up and put in the compost.
Having a good feeder with a catch means less wasted hay.

Good deal. :] Thank you!