People that contain dairy goats and cows, agreed to feed animals raw potatoes. You only need to carefully inspect the tubers, they should not be of green spots, sprouts and mold.

Caution — solanine



Sometimes veterinarians are called the cause of death of goats or cows poisoning solanine is a substance that is found in potatoes and is a natural protection of roots against insects.


Substance refers to poisonous and contains glycosides in all plants of the Solanaceae family. To eat you tubers containing 0.05% of solanine. Almost all the potatoes in the norm contains just as many dangerous substances.

Solanine is under the skin of the potato and in large quantities in the sprouts. About the excess corned beef you can guess by the green color of the peel of raw potato. Immature potato tubers also harmful to the health of humans and animals.

How to avoid solanine poisoning animals



That is why breeders experienced breeders warn the young about the dangers of feeding goats and cows with raw potatoes. The risk of poisoning is reduced significantly if the potato to give the animals cleared. Also solanine is destroyed by heat treatment. Why boiled potatoes are completely safe.

But dairy goats and cows love raw potatoes as a treat. This feed increases the milk yield and useful animals. Pet owners should carefully inspect the tubers before feeding cattle. If the potato peel is normal color, it does not rot and germs, it is possible to give food to the Pets. A few handfuls of raw potatoes is very please the cow and the goats, and the owners will drink more milk.

Rumors that potato starch clogs the ducts of the udder, livestock producers seem to be just fiction. The villagers believe that the more diverse is the diet of the Pets, the better will be the milk.

Goats and cows love the different raw root vegetables, but eat them as much as they need. The rest remains in the feeders. The animals are happy to eat raw beets, pumpkin and cabbage. Dairy Pets instinctively eat greens.

But adding in food supplements seems the owners are not always reasonable. Many Kozovoy note after that, the deterioration of the taste of milk. It is therefore better to feed animals a natural diet and drink tasty milk, the benefit of village life provides such an opportunity.