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Concentrate Feeding management: A healthy goat eats 8%-10% of its body weight per day (approximately 30kg goat will eat 2.5-3kg per day), which comprises of green fodder (70-80%) dry fodder (10-20%) and concentrate feed (10%) and minerals in traces. However, the feeding capacity decreases during the disease and increases during lactation. Click here to know how much to feed exactly depending on body weight.  Concentrate feed chart for goats:   Feeding is an essential aspect of goat raising and may […]

Concentrate feeding management

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Determining the age of a goat is easy to do for the first few years of its life. The procedure is called toothing a goat.A goat has no teeth in the upper front of its mouth,besides teeth  it has a hard palate in the upper front.It has eight teeth in the lower front. The size and condition of these eight teeth is the best gauge to determine the goat’s age. A baby goat has a set of “milk teeth”.  Just […]

Determining age of a goat

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