Goat Feed Calculator
Estimate how much hay, grain, and loose mineral your goats need for a week, month, winter, or full year. Adjust body weight, forage quality, waste, bag size, bale weight, and prices to match your herd.
For two 120 lb standard goats eating hay at 3% of body weight, plan around 7.2 lb of hay per day before waste. With a 10% hay waste buffer, that becomes about 238 lb for 30 days, or roughly five 50 lb bales.
Daily hay pounds based on goat weight, forage rate, pasture offset, and hay waste.
Optional concentrate feed for dairy goats, growing goats, thin goats, or other planned rations.
A simple loose mineral estimate in pounds for the selected period.
Rounded bale and bag counts with an estimated hay, grain, and mineral cost.
As a rough planning range, goats often need dry matter equal to about 2% to 4% of body weight per day. For a 120 lb goat, that is roughly 2.4 to 4.8 lb of dry feed daily before adjusting for pasture quality, waste, pregnancy, lactation, growth, or weather.
Choose the 150 day winter period, enter your goat count and average weight, then divide the hay total into your local bale size. Add extra if winters are long, bales are light, your goats waste hay, or pasture is unavailable.
No. Many mature wethers and dry does do well on quality forage, minerals, and clean water. Dairy goats, growing goats, late-pregnancy does, and thin animals may need measured grain or a balanced concentrate. Follow feed-label limits and local livestock advice.
Goats often pull hay from feeders, sort leaves and stems, or refuse hay that falls on damp ground. A waste buffer helps the buying estimate match what you actually need on hand.