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6/14/2019
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Goat Production from the Goats Perspective
Mark Kepler
Purdue Extension Educator
Horse Pasture
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Plant Psychology
Not the Way to Go
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Understand Your Animal
Goat Psychology
Origin of the Species
Climate
Turkey and Iran
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What Do We See Here?
• Brush- mouth parts
• Little grass
• Rocks-hoof
• Lack of grain
• Horns-defense
• Herding instinct
• Up high
• Dry-Worms and Foot Rot
• Domesticated 8,000 BC
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Cattle
Goats less Europeanized
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Understand Your AnimalBoer Goat
Origin of the breed
South African Climate
• Rain- 17 inches
• Cold- Just under freezing at the lowest
• Hot- Less than 90F
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We are not South Africa!
GeneticsGoats (from their point of view) are naturally
developed and raised in a dry environment.
Cattle came for a wetter environment.
Breeding Resistance
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I Raise Cattle and Goats
Up High
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Even Higher• Goat on shed
Other Side of the Fence
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Cattle vs Goat
My Pasture
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Provided by David Ditsch
Goat Grazing Preference TrialUK Robinson Station
1. Sorghum Sudan
2. White Clover
3. Turnip
4. Red clover
5. Chicory
6. Sericea Lespedeza
7. Tall Oatgrass
8. Alfalfa
9. Warm Season Grasses
(EGG, Switch, BB, Indian)
10. Reed canarygrass
11. Orchardgrass
12. Annual Lespedeza
13. Novel Endophyte TF
14. Endophyte Free TF
15. Infected TF
16. Bluegrass
17. Bermudagrass
Brown Midrib Sorghum Sudan
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Chicory
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Chicory was cultivated as early as 5000 years ago by Egyptians as a medicinal plant.
Grain is a Drug
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Grain –Grass seed
Corn
Wheat
Barley
Oats
High in carbohydrates and low in protein.
SerotoninThe Feel Good Drug
• Secreted from the gut in response to food
and travels to the brain
• High grain low protein diets increase
serotonin production---Grains
• Also Increase domination
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Goat Queen
Common for a doe who has just kidded to try and ‘upgrade’ her pecking order
Goats will eat Dirt but they will not eat Dirty feed
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Goats do not like Wet
Wet and Wild
• Weedy house
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Rose Bush
• Rose bush
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Iraq-- first written reference to the
rose in 3,000 B.C.
Domestication is not Done