{"id":205,"date":"2011-10-28T18:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2011-11-03T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:21:39","slug":"nutrition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/?page_id=205","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition is the most important issue whether you are producing meat goats, getting ready for a show or just making sure your companion is well looked after.\u00a0\u00a0 Goats do not eat anything but have a selective grazing habit which enables them to eat a wider range of plants than either sheep or cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally goats do best when given feed ad lib but that process may not be financially viable for most producers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goats need a mixture of fresh green grass and roughage in the form of hay.\u00a0\u00a0 Where green grass is not readily available, then a supplementary feed such as grain either natural or in the form of pellets, or as a premix can be used but hay is still a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Irrespective of the age of the animal or breeding status that is pregnant does, working bucks, they all have a basic requirement for water, energy, protein vitamins, minerals and roughage.\u00a0 It is only the quantities which will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition is the most important issue whether you are producing meat goats, getting ready for a show or just making sure your companion is well looked after.\u00a0\u00a0 Goats do not eat anything but have a selective grazing habit which enables them to eat a wider range of plants than either sheep or cattle. Ideally goats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glendalong.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}