fruits and vegtables
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Yes, I like to chop them up small and put them in a feed pan. You need to get them used to them gradually. I would start with something like an apple each twice a day for full grown goats on some pasture, then if there is no clumpy poo after a few days, add a bit more. As soon as you see clumpy poo, back off on the amount per feeding.
You can store the best apples and extend the time you feed them. I do this every fall with free pumpkins from the farm next door, and root veggies from my own gardens. What will spoil soon gets fed while it is good, and what will keep well is fed far into the winter months when there is nothing growing outside. I feel it is very good for them.
You can store the best apples and extend the time you feed them. I do this every fall with free pumpkins from the farm next door, and root veggies from my own gardens. What will spoil soon gets fed while it is good, and what will keep well is fed far into the winter months when there is nothing growing outside. I feel it is very good for them.
20kidsonhill
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Yes, except I think Tomatoes and Potatoes are in the Night shade family and contain a certain chemical that some people don't like to give their goats.
PUmpkins and squash are really good for goats, and the seeds have some deworming properties.
PUmpkins and squash are really good for goats, and the seeds have some deworming properties.
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Even cherries with their little pits/stones have poisonous leaves if they've wilted slightly. Completely dry leaves are safe, but I'd just stay away from cherry trees and other stone fruits to be sure.chandasue said:
There's toxins released by the act of wilting that can build up in an animal's system and kill them.
Apples are good though, and root vegetables like beets (many people in different parts of the world will grow "mangel" beets specifically for livestock feed), turnips, rutabagas, carrots etc are good too. Pumpkins and squash, along with pretty much every other standard garden vegetable is fine. They're more healthy for them than the pelleted feed, but not everyone thinks ahead and plants a patch of mangels for their goats... Like me.
Tomato and potato leaves aren't good though. I think it's because they're in the nightshade family, as was mentioned. Not sure about the actual tomato or potatoes for that matter, but green potatoes are poisonous to humans even. Better stay away from feeding those to your beasties!
Oxilate acid or something?? Is that what's released when the plant wilts? Not 100% sure on that.
Not even sure if that is an acid... But anyway. :/
phoenixmama
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I give my goats a lot out of my garden. I started last fall with the guts and seeds from pumpkins and winter squash...which they went nuts over. Since then, my lettuce plants that flowered and went to seed got fed to the goats, broccoli and brussels sprouts plants that were pulled out to make room for my new pepper and tomato starts, trimmings from the pine, eucalyptus, acacia, mulberry, gardenia, and apple trees...right now the main item they are getting from the garden are swiss chard scraps.
Like it was already mentioned, as long as you don't give them a ton of one thing at a time (unless they are used to the variety) then they should be just fine.
Like it was already mentioned, as long as you don't give them a ton of one thing at a time (unless they are used to the variety) then they should be just fine.
