Quality goat feed ensures quality meat or milk production. Providing adequate feed according to the demand of your goats help them to grow faster and produce more milk or meat.
Although goats always keep continue searching for foods. Usually, they can go far from their area for searching food. This type of food habit helps them to meet up the nutritional demands.
Naturally goats are very hardy and can tolerate weather change highly. They can survive for long time without water in heavy drought.
During natural disasters and food crisis, they can even consume low quality food. This type of survival with low quality food is not possible for other animals.
他们的嘴在所有吃动物的植物中都很强壮。凭借嘴巴，他们可以吃任何类型的草，不同类型的叶子，树枝等。
Goat convert food to quality meat or milk very fast than other animal. Although goat eat all types of food, but they do not like to eat same food always.
So, they should have diversity in their regular feeding habit. Goats usually do not eat leftovers of another goat. They can understand the taste of food, but they are not picky.
Even they can eat and consume such food which other animals don’t eat (even touch). But for commercial production, you must have to very very careful about goat feed. Always try to feed your goats quality food with proper nutrition and energy.
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山羊饲料的分类
像其他家畜的食物一样，山羊饲料应包含适当量的蛋白质，脂肪，矿物质和维生素。
Goats usually drink less water than otherlivestock animals. Always try to provide them fresh and clean water. The types of goat feed are described below.
粗糙
食用这种食物非常困难。这种类型的饲料含有超过18％的纤维和不到60％的总消化营养素。
粗糙for goats are of two types. Dry roughage and succulent roughage. Succulent roughage contain 75-95% water. Grasses, maize, napier, jack fruit leaf, mango leaf, guava leaf, cabbage, vigna sinensis, pulse etc. are the source of roughage.
山羊有复杂的胃。他们可以将营养轻松形成粗糙的饲料。
粒状饲料
Grainy feed or feed mixer is easily digestible and enriched with various types of nutritious ingredients such as protein, carbohydrate and fat. This type of goat feed contain less water and less than 18% fiber.
总消化营养素小于60％。颗粒状山羊饲料的主要来源是脉搏，小麦，玉米，米，豌豆，豌豆，小吃，马铃薯等。除此之外，蛋糕，芝麻蛋糕，糖蜜，农业副产品等也很好地作为粒状山羊饲料源。
山羊饲料添加剂
For making balanced and nutritious goat feed, you need to mix different types of vitamins and minerals in the grainy feed. Along with this, you can get more vitamins and minerals from different types of vegetables.
By consuming roughage feed, your goats can only survive their life. But for producing meat, milk, skin or fur from goat commercially, you must have to feed them different types of grainy feed along with roughage/greens.
Mix different types of ingredients in the grainy goat feed. This will increase the taste of food and goat can easily digest it.
Essential Nutrition Ingredients In Goat Feed
Goats need different types of nutrient in their feed. A list about demand of essential nutrients ingredient of goats is shown below.
| 营养成分 | 要求 |
| Dry Matterial | 对于肉类生产，其体重的2.5-3％。牛奶生产4-8％ |
| Energy | 答：每公斤体重为7-8克以生存。
B: 3 gram per kg body weight for body growth.
C: 300 gram for 1 litter milk production. |
| 蛋白质 | 答:每10公斤山羊需要4.5 -6.4 gram digestible crude protein for survival.
B：70克粗蛋白，用于1个垃圾牛奶。 |
| 水 | 每天约18-20公斤的山羊重量约为0.5-1.0垃圾。 |
| 干粮：水 | 1:4 |
| Minerals | 每公斤体重的山羊重量为147毫克钙和72毫克磷。 |
Balanced Goat Feed
The food which contain all nutrient ingredients in proper ratio and quantity to meet up the demand of goat’s body is known as ‘balanced goat feed’.
每只山羊都需要优质的营养食品，以便健康和更好的生产。如果您的山羊没有得到均衡的饲料，那么它们将不会根据需求获得营养成分。
And it will reduce their production capability and damage their product’s quality. Follow the chart of nutritious goat feed.
| Feed Ingredients | Baby Goat (%) | 乳制山羊（％） | 肉山羊（％） | 怀孕的山羊（％） |
| Gram | 20 | 15 | 20 | 50 |
| 玉米/碎小麦 | 22 | 37 | 23 | 20 |
| 芝麻/坚果蛋糕 | 35 | 25 | 30 | 20 |
| 小麦粉 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 7 |
| Minerals | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Salt | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 全部的 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
In case of dairy山羊种植, providing sufficient amount of greens and water play a vital role. Along with providing your goats nutritious food, ensure availability of sufficient amount of greens. And provide them adequate clean and fresh water according to their demand.
