What are the various management practices a goat farmer should carry out?

      

What are the various management practices a goat farmer should carry out?

  

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Kavungya
- If goats are kept for milk, the kids should be removed from their mother and fed from a bucket or a bottle
- The kid should be fed three times a day
- Solid food should be introduces at 2-3 weeks old
- Regular vaccination should be carried out after weaning
- Hoof trimming
- Confined meat producing goats may be fed on out forage
- Food on sweet potato vines, napier grass or green maize
- In addition to grazing, dairy goats food on roughage such as silage
- Concentrates must be fed to lactating goats to correct any mineral deficiency in roughage / provide mineral lick
- Proper records on various operations should be kept
- Spraying against external parasites/ farm hygiene
- Identification operations e.g tagging, branding, ear-notching tatooing
- Castrate males not required for breeding
Kavungya answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 08:08


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