The letter from experience of the maintenance of goats of mishinsky breed.
I live in the country, I hold goats some years. At first it were animals with a yield of milk of 1,5-2 l, then got a mshnensky nanny-goat, and afterwards, and a goat. Goats not thoroughbred, without the relevant documents, but quite suit me. Adult animals weigh about 50 kg, in the summer of the nady makes 3-4 l (it thus that goats we do not graze – there is no possibility, road circle). My nanny-goats are unpretentious, live in not heated shed, all the year round walk in a shelter, in a shed only spend the night, In such conditions it should thoroughbred zaanenka hard and there are they very expensively.
In literature when tell about okote, emphasize that goats worry at this time, lose appetite, rake up a laying, and limited physical exercise can complicate childbirth. But at my goats always all passed well – gave birth in the afternoon or in the morning and very quickly. Once I pokormila animals also went to shop. The goat who should give birth, didn’t show any concern. I wasn’t no more than an hour. And when I came and zaglyanula just in case to a shed, about a goat two kids already went. Another time the young goat gave birth directly about a koryomushka. She very quietly ate hay, and I prinimala a kid.
The last 2 years I keep kids under the koyozy – so efforts with them less and kids it is more healthy. Goats with young growth I transfer to an otyodelny summer shed, and in 1-1,5 months a goat otsazhivayu, kids ostayutsya and live in a shed there till winter.
This year two goats were poured with razniyotsy in 1 day, one brought two kozlikov, another – a nanny-goat. Because of neobxodimosti (milk was necessary for the child) one kozu transplanted in 2 weeks, and her goats charged to other goat, and that accepted them. As kids 3, and a nipple 2, I three times a day during feeding of one of kozlikov otsazhivayu in a cage, and a goat priderzhivayu, I give it something tasty. When kids will eat, I transfer them to a cage, and that was in a cage, I let out to materi. Kids grow cheerful, weight and force gain equally.
The goat at us the, with adult goats is constantly, but goats give birth – from March to May.
It is a little how I feed the goats. I cook nothing and not zaparivayu, grain and vegetables I give, as they say, in a natural look. Unfortunately, it is not possible to reserve doyostatochno root crops, they suffice only on distribute. I salt trekhvederny kastryulyu cabbage leaves. Goats eat them well. Actively we use a nettle – I skin in the summer and in brooms in the winter. Hay zayogotavlivay wood, in it is mute many branches from young bushes. It seems to me, goats eat such hay better, than the homogeneous meadow.
E.Chursinova