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Article: Increase your net profit from dairy goats.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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Tom Miller used to buy newborn dairy calves and raise them on milk replacer and pasture to market either as stocker calves or replacements for local dairies. However, according to the December, 1993 issue of The Stockman Grass Farmer, he found the high cost of the milk replacer and the poor calf health it produced kept profits low.
Enter the dairy goats! After reading an article about goats suckling calves, the Macon, Mississippi farmer acquired several. He now uses goats to suckle calves until they reach 150-200 pounds. At this stage they are readily drinking water and consuming hay and about 1 1/2 pounds of grain per day. They are thus ready to be weaned onto ...