[Jacob-list] Housing Goats and Sheep together

[Sharon Hill]

I have a friend who raises over 100 goats and 100
sheep.  They run together most of the time and she
just feeds them all the sheep minerals and hasn't had
any problems.  She has been doing this for about 20
years so I trust her judgment.  Her Angora goats
regularly run away with all the top prizes when
entered into shows, and their fleeces are the best I
have ever encountered.

I am no expert.  This is just a tale of one case I
know about.

Sharon Hill

 --- Betty Berlenbach <lambfarm at sover.net> wrote:


> 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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