I posted this somewhere else, just thought you guys would be interested of the implications.


I have one pen of goats that have purified RO water that removes
chlorine and fluoride. All of my dairy goats stay in that pen (only
six currently).

The other goats are in different pens and they just get tap
water...which means chlorine and flouride.

Before I had the RO system...the goats would not eat all of the
alfalfa. They would leave the stems and just would never finish it,
leaving a lot of waste. After installing the system they started
eating everything, and would clean out their feeding boxes. The ones
in the other pen still only ate the stems.

When I put goats from the one pen with the good water to the pen with
the tap water they became picky and wouldn't finish off all the
alfalfa I fed them. Even if I overfeed the goats in the pen with the
purified water they completely finish all of the alfalfa and just look
extra wide. Even if I feed the goats on tap water very little, they still will leave a lot of wasted alfalfa.

Tap water obviously affects goats flora enough so they can't digest
all of the alfalfa...which just isn't the case when they drink
purified water, they will happily eat every piece of the alfalfa.

Just thought some of you might find this info useful...

-Gary Dawson