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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Newbie intro
  • Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:35:44 EDT


> I don't recall supplementing our goats with
> minerals when I was young. They got hay, foraging

I am generally barred on this list from saying this, but perhaps with some
digital disguising I can get the post past the filters ......

Judy, you will hear a lot of things about goats, or any animal or plant you
raise, probably even if you raised rocks, that if you don't do this or that,
the next morning all your goats will be on their backs with those little X's
over their eyes and buzzards circling over head.

Take it all with a very large gain of super mineral enhanced goat salt.

People like to get into things, as well they should. It's fun. But it can
easily get out of hand.

Of all the creatures you can raise on a homestead, goats are the closest
thing to wild animals than any of them. They are still nine parts wild, and
as
such, left to their own devices and given anything like a goat-like
environment,
they do fine.

We are in a geographical area where the soil is supposed to be nearly devoid
of many goat minerals (selenium, for example). And yet the unsupplemented
goats thrive just fine. We've kept goats for many years now. Each time kids
are
due, the does wander off into the woods and a couple of days later wander
back out with two or three kids in tow. We have never done any intervention
whatever and we've never lost a kid or a doe in the process.

So relax and in so far as is possible and practical in your situation, let
the goats make the decisions and take care of themselves. We've a lot more
to
learn from goats than we have to teach them.

James

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