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["SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I gots lots to do today Rob, but I definitely have opinions on
this....don't buy the soy hay before I get a chance to weigh in!  I'll
try to write more tonight...

Bev

sanrico AT highdesert.com wrote:

> Thanks, Rob - I hope everyone posts responses - this is one of my
> areas of interest, too. And, hopefully, some discussion on
> cheesemaking will be included. Sandy
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:52:01 -0400, "Robert Walton" wrote:
>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've been busy homesteading and just lurking here mostly. I got 6
> > Boer does and a Buck and then added a couple of Nubian-Alpine cross
> >  doelings in to be bred by the Boer buck. Next spring, I'll try my
> > hand at goat milking. Hopefully, I'll like goat meat or find
> > someone who will pay for it!
> >
> > The goats are great brush eaters and my plan is for them to
> > contribute to the fertility of the place, provide some meat and
> > milk and keep brush down. Maybe they will be the path to getting
> > pasture ready to support some beef cattle.
> >
> > I am going to have to start feeding hay soon. I'd like to get some 
> > grass hay and some soybean hay. I've heard that the legumes are
> > good for them and figure that they soybean hay should have some
> > more protein in it.
> >
> > They sure liked eating some frost killed bean vines I gave them
> > last week. ANy of you that keep goats have any thoughts on Soybean
> > hay for goats?
> >
> > Hay is mostly sold in round bales here, so I have to make a
> > commitment when I buy and would like to bring in 4 bales, 2 grass
> > and 2 soybean.
> >
> > I'll take any other goat advise you have also, cause I'm just
> > getting started with goats. I love these animals!
> >
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