Goat Minerals
Minerals are perhaps the single most important nutritional component to ensure health and vigor. Let’s... View more
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Kathy Winters’ experience a few years ago had a profound impact on me and how I view minerals in goats. Despite feeding “goat formulated” minerals, she began having significant losses–fatalities–in her Nigerian Dwarf goat herd due to copper toxicosis. This experience was one of the big reasons I moved to mineral buffet. I mention her frequently and have linked to her posts in my other work. Here, in the archival spirit, I am adding complete screen captures of her posts so that they are preserved in their entirety. You can read the full post here: https://www.facebook.com/RedHorseValley/posts/pfbid02fGZYQuk87HeDZcFwAjqbnroLE43j4ghBf2wy1CVF1dotjN3rSWPdCE6AD1XH7LiPl
In this post, Kathy details improvement in what many might consider symptoms of mites when the goat in the photo began treatment for copper toxicity.
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Some of us like to see a response to treatment to also help us validate the diagnosis. It isn’t always clear cut, but here is a dramatic example for you. Ten days after starting antidote treatment...
