Which Types of Hay Change the Taste of Goats Milk?
baby goat image by Chris Roselli from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/md/5f/types-change-taste-goat_s-milk_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Happy, healthy goats eat a variety of foods. Caution and care is needed when feeding goats, especially milking does. The saying “You are what you eat” applies very much to goats, and you should expect the quality you put in your does to be the quality you get from their from their milk. Goats fed an ill-balanced diet will give mediocre milk, while goats fed a mixture of hay, pasture and grains will give delicious milk. If you are changing your goat’s feed, remember what Molly Bunton of Fias Co Farm says: “Never make big changes in the way you feed a goat all at once, or feed large quantities of a new food that the goat has never had before; if you do this, you can throw off the bacteria in the goat’s rumen, which can cause the goat to bloat, or the rumen to
