Features of the content of goats at home. Room equipment

Goat is one of the most unpretentious animals in agriculture. But behind it, careful care is needed so that it gives a lot of milk and rich offspring. Animal care consists in a good room with all the necessary equipment, proper nutrition and walking.

Room for Koz

If you have only a few goats, then they can be kept in any animal indoors already built and suitable for housing. It can be a barn, sheepskin or stable, most importantly, to have a roof above the head, the necessary equipment and the opportunity to care for pets.
Cancer Requirements:

1. Clean air - the location of the goat must be, as far as possible from the intermediate holes and any other places that pollute the air. Temperature mode: in summer no higher than +18 degrees, and in winter not lower than +6 degrees.
2. The room should not be wet, otherwise the goats from the high humidity will get sick. In kozljatnika optimum humidity does not exceed the level of 75%. In winter you need to protect the goats from drafts, it needs to hang the door and the place where shines through, cloth or burlap to the frost from the outside did not. And if the goat's thin walls, they have warmed. Clean in winter vetch need less to keep warm in the summer, on the contrary, as often as possible.
3. It is desirable that the room was in an open area and warm, and the sun was covered on all sides. Windows should be positioned so that the room was not a draft, it is desirable from the south side of the crib. They should be located closer to pololku, have a square shape, and always open. The doors should be opened to the courtyard, it is very important for fire safety. Near the door should be the threshold that manure does not go outside. The threshold is not high, an example of 15 cm in height.
4. The floor of the milk vetch should be raised and slightly sloping so on it can drain off liquid. It is best to make concrete or earthen, but are not recommended because of the tree, he was under the influence of manure quickly progniot.
5. Of particular importance is not what kind of material used for the construction of the crib. Warm room will be made of wood, cold - stone. It is necessary to insulate. Twice a year, the inside walls are whitewashed whitewash of lime to disinfect the premises.

Equipment for goats

Equipment for goat's almost no different from the same for the other major domestic cattle. Necessarily have to be in the crib:

1. Stall. For each animal a milk vetch should be separate stall the animals are separated from each other by wooden uprights. Each stall has dimensions of 1 x 2 meters. If the animals are young, you can put two pieces in one stall. But then its size should be 2x2 meters.
2. Feeders. Feeders for goats is done in a special way, to the point where lays the animal feed, should be fencing board, to the goat could not get on top of the feeder feeds. To the goat did not come to feed the hooves, build and side boards at the trough. Also make nursery as a box with a grating, to put vegetables, bran, etc. To the manger animal is not worth very close tie, goat must be free to move around the stall and go to bed.
3. For goat need a separate stall away from the goats. And it is desirable to protect the kids from all the department, where they will be in relative freedom.
4. It is advisable to equip a kids in the attic, where the hay, feed and the necessary tools will be stored.

Cammy care

The most basic conditions for the goat content are dry and clean room. If you contain an animal in an unclear room, then the taste of milk will deteriorate. Be sure to need a litter on the floor, it is not necessary to save on it, if the litter is not abundant, then the goat is shifted by himself hay from the stall. What exactly buy a litter depends on the floor. So, if it is from a tree, then the litter must be taking a straw, if concrete, then a peat is well suited to it. It must be put on the floor, and on top to rub straw so that the goat is not dirty. One animal needs 0.5 kg litter per day. Note that the goat loves to lie on Earth and can lean the litter.
A good material for the litter are ordinary leaves, but they wet very quickly and they have to change them very often. Fresh manure need to be removed every day, and the entire room is not less than once every two weeks. During the dock in the goat, you need to clean up not so often to cool the room strongly.
Ideally, daily goats need to be brushed. And if the goats have long wool, it is necessary to be combed with a scallop with metal teeth. This procedure not only makes the appearance of the goat better, but also milk, therefore, becomes better, because in low animals, the milk has an unpleasant smell.

Once every five to seven days of the goats, it is necessary to clean the warm soda solution. If, after this procedure, the goats will still torment the linen, then you need to sprinkle their wool with a pyrethrum or wash with a special soap for animals "K". The procedure for eliminating lice needs to be repeated after 10 days, during this period new lice from eggs will hatch. The day after treatment with drugs, the animal needs to withdraw from the chlev and clean well brush. After that, wash the udder warm water and wipe it with a clean cloth.
Be sure to take care not only for goat wool, but also for her hooves. If they are not worried about them, then the goats will begin the diseases of the legs. If the goats go through solid soil, they will be erased by the horny hoofs, but if the animal stands in the stall on the litter, then she has no place to wash the unnecessary layer of hoofs. And here you already need the help of the owner. He must clean the woven gap to remove the dirt and cut the hoof from it to the required level so that the goat could calmly move.
Every day of the goats you need to walk out on the street so that they go without constraints by the will. If the weather does not have, then at least let them in the barn. It is not true that the movement badly affects the production of milk, rather, even on the contrary.

All manipulations for the care and content of the goat at home should take place without the use of rough strength, only with attention and caress. Therefore, it is not recommended to raise goats to those who do not feed on Malomal sympathy for these animals.

Feeding

The goat refers to such an animal, the feeding of which does not bring special hosts to the owner. She eats food vegetable and with the exception of aconite, dairy, buttercups, consumes almost any grass. More Goat Grass love young shrubs with soft branches and bark.
Features of the goats:

1. Goats have a very subtle smell and taste, they will never touch the plants that are on freshly bonded manure or chemical fertilizer field. If you have noticed that animals bypass fresh greens, and eating old dry leaves, it may mean that goats in the body lacking minerals and vitamins. And she thus mines them. Pay attention to the feed, it is possible to add mineral substances to the goat diet.
2. For the winter, goats need to harvest not only hay, branches, roots. You can prepare brooms from forest walnut, birch and oak branches, they can replace part of the hay. Love the goats and salt of oats, mixed with weeds and hay. Sometimes you can give clover, but not fresh, but in dried. Wet grass, with dew, sometimes causes bloating in animals. Love the goats fruits and vegetables from the garden.
3. From dry food it is useful to feed the goats by bran, oats, barley, corn. Just before pouring them into the feeder, the grain needs to be crushed to the state of the root, and then brew porridge.
4. The dairy goats will help to give bran and Oats, but mix them with carrots and straw sch. Well, the amount of milk affects beets, and it is useful to give potatoes for its fatty.
5. Feeding goats is slightly different from goats. The goat does not need to flip, otherwise he will not go into the concern. During the period of increments, the goat is given hay and a straw and add 200 grams of oats, and if it refuses it, then give 0.5 kg of black bread, which is sprinkled by thick salt.
6. The goat is fed up with two methods: with goat and without such. In the first version, a goat after a while after birth brought to the udam goats and fed, so eight times a day. We take from the maternal udder aged 3 months. The second embodiment lies in the fact that kids are fed with maternal milk, but with a bottle or special dressing bowl. A month from birth, goats are beginning to feed the crust, hay and remove on the grazing. In 4 months, animals are already fully independent of milk and eat the usual diet for them intended. Those animals that are with the mother, already at the age of 1 week come out with her to the will to green grass. They tend to develop better than those standing in the stall.
7. Watering animals need ordinary water. An animal must be addicted to drink from birth, otherwise, mature, it will refuse to drink, getting moisture from juicy feed. Water should be put in room temperature. You can park an hour before feeding, but the most important thing is not the time, but that the animal never knew what thirst is. You need to eat goats three times a day if there is no drain on pasture. The dairy goat drinks 6 liters of water in summer, and not dairy - three liters. In winter, a pits with water put in a hlev.

Goats on pasture

In the industrial cultivation of goats, the content and care of animals is sometimes as follows that they are in the stalls and pastures are not seen. But those who are engaged in the content of goats at home should understand that the pastures for the goats are very necessary. Finding on the will, green grass, sun rays and motor activity, all this increases the sexual activity in animals, produces immunity to diseases, especially to colds. The activity of the gastrointestinal tract is improved, appetite rises, and passages pass.

Pastures are two species, the natural, which the nature itself created, and artificial ones, on which they specifically sowed the difference. The best are Polyany with thick multicolored grass. And the bad pastures are those that are on the swampy terrain. On the swamp, animals can get sick with a hoofed rot or hepatic duplex.
It is not necessary to hone out early to the pasture of the goats, the dew animals is contraindicated, just like grazing on rainy weather, and after returning to the stall, it is necessary to give them a hay.
If there is no possibility of putting goats, they are tied with a rope to the peg, leaving three ropes for the walking meter. And be sure to milk the animals three times a day.
The goat milk is very useful, he is given even to the smallest children. They are treated with the diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, if you want to get high-quality milk, provide your animal worthy care.