When feeding processed grain, remove all feed left after 15 minutes and feed a lesser amount the next day. If goats leave feed in the trough, they are being fed too much. Additionally, the carbohydrates in the sack feed will permit goats to better cope with any browse that they encounter that might be toxic to them. Lots of grain mixtures that contain coccidia preventatives are commercially available. There is some recent evidence that this intestinal parasite is developing a resistance to such feed additives.
Goats can overeat and die.
Pour water on a bowl of shell corn and watch it swell. That is precisely what occurs in a goat's stomach when it eats too much shell corn. Sack feed already has a proper amount of corn product in it. This natural goat food is unsurpassed in healing ability. Producers are encountering urinary calculi in goats.