Managing the goat: How to take care of a milky goat?

A milky goat needs better nutrition  than regular indigenuos Nguni goats, and is not convinient at all to have them free in the bushlands because this can cause them injures in their udders.

Proper conditions to manage a single (or a couple of) milky goat are:

• It must be treated as a home goat, like a pet. Go for a walk with it, look for the best grazing twice a day. Tie it close to home under the best and shorter grass.
• Taking it for a one and a half hours walk could provide 80% of their nutrition needs. But remember, it will always need more that just grass. (as we’ll see on the videos)
• Provide it with the waste coming from garden and home:  fruit peelings, leaves  and, if possible,  hard bread or wastes from corn. The waste that people use to feed the hens must be used for the goats (Urban people or, if the municipality gives a hand, organic market garbage will be provided as a nutritional complement every week). 
• Cut branches of trees and high leaves where other rumiants cannot reach.
• You would need around 3 kg a day to feed a milk goat (near 40kg). 

◦     a part from grassing (50-80%),

◦     from garden and home waste (yours or from urban garbages or from other families). (50-20%)

• You will milk the goat once or twice a day. It's better to keep away the offspring after the 3er week (the RAG will engaged on that throught a herder who collaborates with them, from 1st to 6th  month, period that  the goat will be pregnant).