Mountain Goat Diet. I ve put my goats on a 100 pasture and hay diet also called grass fed. Mountain goats are herbivores graminivores folivores.
Their diet includes grasses herbs sedges ferns moss lichen twigs and leaves from the low growing shrubs and conifers of their high altitude habitat. Their diet includes grasses herbs sedges ferns moss lichen twigs and leaves from the low growing shrubs and conifers of their high altitude habitat. Factors affecting water intake in goats include lactation environmental temperature water content of forage consumed amount of exercise stage of production growth maintenance lactation etc and salt and mineral content of the diet.
The mountain goats diet usually consists to about 2 to 4 pounds of greens such as leaves grass flowers black berries wheat and salt.
Some places in utah and colorado have small populations of mountain goats. The mountain goats diet usually consists to about 2 to 4 pounds of greens such as leaves grass flowers black berries wheat and salt. Mountain goats are herbivores and spend most of their time grazing. Factors affecting water intake in goats include lactation environmental temperature water content of forage consumed amount of exercise stage of production growth maintenance lactation etc and salt and mineral content of the diet.