× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! This table tracks the amount of each mineral, in ounces, that I have either put into the mineral buffet feeders or into the small jars I keep at the farthest feeder from the barn. In June, we had 16 yearling or Read More
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Mineral Buffet Consumption Totals for May 2022
× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! This table tracks the amount of each mineral, in ounces, that I have either put into the mineral buffet feeders or into the small jars I keep at the farthest feeder from the barn. Over time, this will indicate overall consumption Read More
Mineral Buffet Consumption Totals for April 2022
× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! This is the beginning of a project to track exact totals of the individual minerals my herd is consuming in the mineral buffet. We began April with 12 does, 4 bucks and 21 kids. Kids go home this month, so we Read More
Mineral Buffet Feeder Tutorial
× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! One of the biggest hurdles to getting started with mineral buffet is figuring out how to feed it without loss from waste or water. I don’t know about your goats, but mine are poo basketball pros and if there’s a way Read More
Mineral Buffet for Goats
× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! Mineral buffet for our goats all started because of 16 dead kids. For eight years, we had raised goats on a dry lot with free choice alfalfa, locally sourced loose minerals and no live born kid losses. Zero. Then we had Read More
Natural Coccidiosis Prevention and Treatment for Goats
× Looking for minerals and goat supplies? Head over to our shop at GoatCare.com! When the veterinary feed directive took effect some years ago, it made the conventional coccidiosis preventive we used available only by vet prescription. “No problem,” I thought, because I’d always wanted to find a natural coccidiosis prevention protocol for my goats Read More