I thought I’d preface this piece with some background, how I got started with goats, leading into figuring out how to keep them healthy and productive on a forage based system, to the inextricable interconnectedness between the health of our livestock and the land they live on, and feed from; how minerals, supplements and soil are interrelated and for really healthy livestock that work with the land there is no one size fits all mineral supplement: it all depends on the soil.
I’ve been keeping goats for well over a decade now. But the first few years of that was on a very small, backyard scale, starting with my pet buck, Bongo, a kid I picked up at the market (back then you could still pick up goats, puppies and ponies at the Friday farmer's market), and a couple of hardy little backyard milkers somebody gave us that pretty much took care of t…
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