Re: ? regarding cost of keep of goats- Aliza

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I'm lucky my local feed store carries organic whole barley at an affordable

price and it is local. I dont use much at all really. They get the equivilent

of maybe 1# dry barley total per day but when you soak and sprout it it has much

more volume - they get one scoop - it is a pint scoop - of the soaked barley at

each milking. I have found that it is most palatable day 2 or 3 - any longer

and they dont like it much - Once the sprouts have lots of root on them they

dont eat it well at all. I soak 24 hours in a big bucket and then pour it into

stainless colanders to rinse until I feed it out. The way my milkroom is set up

I do best with 2 day sprouting so I dont have too many containers to deal with

though I prefer to feed it at 3 days give or take.

My goal is to forgo the barley entirely and feed mangels on the stand but havent

gotten it together to grow them enough for the year KWIM? My girls stay healthy

grain or not but some dont like to come in if they dont have a goodie on the

stand:o)

HTH

aliza

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> Aliza,

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> I'm interested in your sprouted whole barley... I've only sprouted something

a couple of times, so I'm a serious newbie at this. How do you sprout yours?

It sounds like volumes you must be sprouting. How much do you feed each goat?

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> Thanks!

> Dona

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