[Jacob-list] Housing Goats and Sheep together

[Betty Berlenbach]

It would seem to me that if you are milking goats, and taking them to a 
millk house to do so, or a stantion or somehting, then you could feed them 
grain and minerals while milking them, when they are separate from the 
sheep..wouldn't that be a way to get the needed copper to the goats, but not 
th sheep, for whom it is toxic?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Lynde" <rlynde at onramp113.org>
To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Housing Goats and Sheep together



> We feed for the sheep requirements. The goats eat the sheep minerals. If I 

> grain the sheep (rarely) then the goats can eat that. Whenever 

> circumstances allow it (goats are penned separately for some reason) then 

> they have a different mineral block available. Sometimes we try to put 

> minerals in a place where the goats can get to it be the sheep can't 

> (through a fence panel, higher up, etc), but it's not a great solution and 

> we're not consistent with that. The milkers get lactating goat grain while 

> being milked so I feel like they at least get something that they should. 

> By the way, when I've bought goat minerals they don't eat them--at least 

> the brand that I've tried. They will eat the sheep salt mix though.

> Robin Lynde

> Meridian Jacobs

> Vacaville, CA

> www.meridianjacobs.com

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Shannon Phifer" <kenleighacres at yahoo.com>

> To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>

> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:11 AM

> Subject: [Jacob-list] Housing Goats and Sheep together

>

>

>> Hello - I have a question for those of you that have goats and sheep 

>> together - how do you address the copper differences that each of them 

>> need?  I have a gal that is interested in buying a couple lambs, but she 

>> has goats and she gives them loose mineral and grain with copper in it. 

>> She is wondering what to do.  She would like to house them together.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> Shannon Phifer

>> Kenleigh Acres Farm

>> Dexter, OR

>> www.kenleigh-acres.com

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