The feed is useful to meet the basic necessities of life, such as production (grow big, fat and milk) and for reproduction (mating, pregnant, birth, breastfeeding). Feeding should be based on their needs and the amount adjusted to the physiological status of animals. As a general rule i.e. 10% fresh material or 3% of dry material was calculated from the weight of his body. As an Example, when the goat of 25 kg live weight then giving about 2.5 kg of fresh forage or 0.75 kg of dry forage.
Feed for goats can be grouped into three, namely energy, protein and mineral sources. Energy sources such as whole grains: maize, sorghum, rice bran, wheat bran, corn bran, sweet potatoes, cassava, cassava, grass and rice straw. Feed ingredients that are a source of protein such as type of legume glirisidia, Turi, lamtoro, Centrosema, agricultural residues such as: bean leaves, cassava leaves, soybean meal, cotton seed, pulp, pulp soy sauce and others. As a mineral resource or mineral salts can be added mix. Drinking water should be available in the cages.
Forage can be prepared by looking in nature or can be cultivated. Planting can be done in areas that are not used for agricultural crops, such as in roadside paddy fields, village land, slope or even can be planted as a living fence, and in the area planted as a monoculture.
Various types of forage grasses are natural grass, elephant grass, Setaria, Bengal grass, lawn king, etc. In addition to the types of forage others are legumes (leaves, nuts, lamtoro, Turi, glirisidia, calliandra, albasia etc.). Derived from residual forage crops such as cassava leaves, jackfruit leaves, straw, peanut, soybean straw, corn straw and banana leaves can also be used as feed goats.
In feeding forage, to note the balance between grass and legume leaves associated with physiological conditions of livestock. In the adult goats, feeding grass and legume can be given with 3:4 ratios. However, in a state of pregnant, it is advised to use 3:2 ratios. Another case when the goats are breastfeeding, the comparison should be 1: 1. Kid weaning given grass and leaves legume with a ratio of 3:2. Avoid giving young forage, if forced to use should be aerated for at least 12 hours to avoid the occurrence of bloat (bloating) in goats.
Feed should be given 2 times a day (morning and afternoon), and given also the drinking water and iodized salt to taste. For goats pregnant, breast-feeding mother, dairy goats and bulls that are mated to be added food reinforcement in the form of slurry is a mixture of bran, tofu and other ingredients that exist in its region as much as 0.5 to 1 kg / head / day. Forage feedstuffs can also be preserved at the time of abundant forage as silage or hay making. Rice straw, beans, other agricultural wastes can also be preserved as feeding the goats when the dry season.
Local Goats are generally very fond of the leaves, especially leaf from beans, forage grasses can also being used as primary food for cattle. Using Feed Amplifiers is generally recommended. It can be used to accelerate growth and many purposes. Feed Amplifiers Are foods that contain certain substances that are relatively high. This food is suitable to be given lambing cattle, which will accelerate the growth of the child and the parent. As an example of concentrate / feed amplifier is 98.5% of Tofu Dregs and 1.5% salt which should be given to cattle at 0.35 kg / day. For more info, kindly read in Types of foods for Local Goats.
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