Re: grass fed -vs- organic vegetable fed...

[Guest guest]

> i buy raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds

> their goats organically grown green leafy vegetables

> that they grow themselves. the farm is certified

> organic. is there any benefit to grass fed over this?

>

> craig

Probably. It depends somewhat on how much of their diet is green

leafy vegetables and how much is pellets, grain or hay. Even if they

were getting a very large amount though, the goats still wouldn't be

getting the opportunity to select for themselves what to eat.

Grazing and browsing is done with very specific preferences of the

animal. Studies have supposedly shown (don't ask me how, I didn't

explore it that far) that the items selected by the grazer/browser

are pretty consistently higher than the average of all available

grass and forbs in the ranging area.

With that said, free access to plenty of organic, high fertility,

pasture of some kind (grass for cows, whatever for goats) is the

*ideal*. If you've found a source of raw goat milk on an organic

farm that doesn't just feed hay and pellets, you've found a pretty

good source. I'd say run with it and keep one eye open for a source

of the *ideal* milk. If it never materializes, you're still getting

much better than what's in the store...

....and keep in mind that with goats, you're probably not really

looking for " grass-fed. " What you're looking for is " pastured " or

some term like that. Goats are browsers, not grazers; so they'll

ideally be eating non-grassy forbs.

[Guest guest]

I've read that goats, in the wild, prefer bushes to grass.

Where, by the way, is the farm located?

Roman

cw wrote:

>

> i buy raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds

> their goats organically grown green leafy vegetables

> that they grow themselves. the farm is certified

> organic. is there any benefit to grass fed over this?

>

> craig

>

[Guest guest]

> i buy raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds

> their goats organically grown green leafy vegetables

> that they grow themselves. the farm is certified

> organic. is there any benefit to grass fed over this?

Hi craig:

The answer to your question is that it would depend on the soil

fertility that grows the green leafy vegetables compared to the soil

fertility that grows the grass.

Raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds their goats organically

grown green leafy vegetables that they grow themselves is no

guarantee of high nutritional value for their milk.

Chi

[Guest guest]

> > i buy raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds

> > their goats organically grown green leafy vegetables

> > that they grow themselves. the farm is certified

> > organic. is there any benefit to grass fed over this?

>

> Hi craig:

> The answer to your question is that it would depend on the soil

> fertility that grows the green leafy vegetables compared to the soil

> fertility that grows the grass.

> Raw organic goat milk from a farm that feeds their goats organically

> grown green leafy vegetables that they grow themselves is no

> guarantee of high nutritional value for their milk.

> Chi

Hello Chi,

So what would you say, in general, about the fertility of the

world's pastures(grasslands never plowed)? Dennis

[Guest guest]

--- In @y..., " dkemnitz2000 " <dkemnitz2000@y...>

wrote:

> So what would you say, in general, about the fertility of the

> world's pastures(grasslands never plowed)? Dennis

Hi Dennis:

Perhaps the best way to judge the fertility of the world's pastures

(grasslands never plowed) is by the wild animal life that lived there

before the area was changed by man. In the U.S.A., for instance, the

far western plains with its very low rainfall had sparce animal life

because the soil fertility was not developed. In the mid-plains,

where there was sufficient rainfall to construct soil fertility but

not destruct it, the bison were found, indicating high soil

fertility. In the eastern plains where higher rainfall had first

constructed soil fertility and then started to destruct soil

fertility, the bison were not found in spite of the higher yields of

grass per acre due to the higher rainfall.

If the grassland has never been plowed, but is grassland where a

forest was cleared, then it's low soil fertility.

Chi