Calculators

Feed Calculators

Alfalfa For goats

• Rule of thumb is about 3 pounds per day (give or take) for a lactating doe per 100 pounds body weight
• Average Nigerian Dwarf is about 75 pounds
• Average Mini Nubian is about 90 to 100 pounds
• Average standard sized breed is about 175 to 200 pounds
• #10 can of alfalfa pellets is about 4.8 pounds
  

  Breed	Pounds Per Day	Pounds Per Feeding	#10 Can Amount Per Feeding	Prices in My Area
  				Mountain Sunrise Alfalfa Pellets $14.99/50 lb bag (.30/lg)	Standlee Alfalfa Pellet $11.99/40 lb bag (.30)
  				Price Per Goat	Price Per Goat
  Nigerian Dwarf
  Lactating	2 1/4	1 1/8	1/4 roughly	.68/day, $20/mon	same
  Non-Lactating	1.5	.75	a little under 1/4 can	.45/day $13.50/mon	same
  Mini Nubian
  Lactating	2.7	1.4	a little over 1/4 can	.81/day  $24.30/mon
  Non-Lactating	1.8	.9	a little under 1/4 can	.54/day  $16.20/mon
  Standard Breeds
  Lactating	5 1/4	2 1/8	roughly 1/2 can	$1.58/day $47.25/mon
  Non-Lactating	3 1/2	1 3/4	a little over 1/3 can	$1.05/day $31.50/mon
  Note from Mountain Sunrise:  Make sure to change any feed gradually over a two week span.  Keep feeding what we are normally feeding and decrease a little bit of that, then introduce the new feed gradually.  This is because of how the rumen works.

* The amount to feed comes from the Mountain Sunrise Animal Nutritionist

* Amounts that animals weight on average per breed comes from the general internet

*Peggy (Northern Dawn) did the calculation

Alfalfa for Horses

 

Horse	Pounds Per Day	Pounds Per Feeding	Cost
	10	5	$3/day  $90/mon
Note: Mountain Sunrise nutritionist says that the reason that some pellets are not good to feed horses as their total diet, is because they have binders in them that are not digestible.  As long as the pellets don’t have a binder in them, then pellets can be fed as the horse’s total diet.  Again, this comes from the nutritionist.

 

Gestation Calculators

We have found several gestation calculators which we love.  We try hard to know exactly the date of breeding on our does. However, since we pen breed and work full time, its not always 100% sure that we saw the doe breed.  Thus, sometimes we have to work backwards from the kidding date to obtain the breeding date.  Thus, we will display some different gestation calculators which we use.  Also our Mini Nubians tend to run 150 days gestation, whereas our Nigerian Dwarf run around 145 days.

Link	Calculator Type
https://americangoatsociety.com/education/gestation_calculator.php	Love this calculator Allows one to place the breeding date only You can easily switch between 145 and 150 days gestation
https://goattalk.com/goatpregcal/pregcalc.htm	Just found this calculator and its awesome! 145 day gestation calculator Allows you to put in either the kidding date or the breed date
https://www.goatworld.com/articles/pregnancy/pregnancy.shtml	151 day gestation calculator Allows you to either create kidding date or breeding date

 

Nutrient Calculator

Calculator URL	What is the Table?	More Information
https://www2.luresext.edu/goats/research/nutritionmodule1.htm	Just found this calculator. I’m going to play with it some.  Looks very interesting	https://www.extension.org/pages/19062/goat-interactive-nutrient-calculator#.VNeQCC6SaFI
	Good information about feeding requirements etc	https://www.milkproduction.com/Library/Scientific-articles/Other-milking-animals/Feeds-and-nutrition/