What should be noted when grazing goats? Master these few points

Raising goats is very common, and you can see people raising them everywhere in rural areas, and when raising goats, grazing is almost an essential task. Grazing allows goats to eat all kinds of grass, which helps supplement the goats' nutritional needs, and lets the goats breathe fresh air and get enough sunlight. It is good for the development of the goats' bones, and there are many aspects of grazing that we need to pay attention to. So what should we pay attention to when grazing? Let's take a look below!

1. Salt supplementation and drinking water

Like humans, goats cannot do without salt as a nutrient, and of course water as well. In autumn, make sure the goats have enough salt water. If they lack salt and water for a long time, it will have a great impact on the growth and development of the goats and reduce the resistance of the goats' bodies. So when we feed them, we should supplement salt appropriately, and provide fresh clean water every day, or we can provide lightly salted water.

2. Keep dry

Goats are not suited to growing in damp places, and prefer to live in a dry environment. If the goat shed is damp for a long time and is not dried out in time, goats will be extremely prone to various diseases, such as foot rot. It is difficult to treat and will also cause certain economic losses, so we should frequently change the bedding grass, or lay wooden slats in the goat shed so that the goats' hooves do not touch the ground.

3. Prevent overeating

When grazing, pay attention to the eating situation of each goat to prevent overeating and overdrinking. Especially in spring when the green grass is lush, if the flock overeats and overdrinks, not only will they be unable to effectively absorb the nutrients of the green grass, they will also develop diarrhea. This causes the goats' appetite to decrease, they begin to lose fat, and in severe cases they die, so the amount eaten must be controlled during grazing.

4. Grazing location

The grazing location is very important. When grazing, you should choose a place where the green grass is relatively lush and the water source is clean and sufficient. Do not graze the flock in places with harmful green grass. Some green grasses are toxic, such as “Nao Yang Hua” (Rhododendron molle), and goats will die after eating them. The green grass in many places will have parasites present, and after eating it, various parasitic diseases will also occur. So when grazing, you must pay attention to choosing a good grazing location.

5. Grazing time

When grazing, pay attention to avoiding time periods with higher temperatures, because goats cannot adapt well to high-temperature weather. Usually grazing can be chosen in the morning or evening, when the temperature is lower. Too high a temperature will reduce the goats' appetite, causing the benefits of grazing to be not very obvious. So avoid grazing at noon.

6. Do not graze in the same flock

Grazing in the same flock is very inadvisable, because there are usually pregnant goats in the flock, and when entering and leaving the pen and eating, various collisions and squeezing are unavoidable. These phenomena will lead to an increased miscarriage rate among the ewes, so when grazing, we must graze the pregnant goats separately to increase the lambing rate of the pregnant goats. When they are about to give birth, they must not continue to be grazed.

7. Deworm in time

The disadvantage of grazing is that goats are prone to parasitic diseases, because the morning green grass has a lot of dew, and when grazing, goats will eat a large amount of natural green grass, giving various parasites an opportunity to take advantage. Parasitic diseases will seriously affect the growth and development of goats, so before grazing we should inject the flock with a deworming agent once to prevent parasitic diseases, but it must not be injected into pregnant goats.

The above are the points to note when grazing goats. Although grazing is an essential task when raising goats, its points to note, which are also some of the usual management tasks, are also indispensable. Many friends do not manage things well when grazing, resulting in very weak grazing results. So I also hope everyone treats it seriously when grazing, so as to better improve the results brought by grazing.