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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 857063" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Keren,</p><p>I'm not telling you not to do the vinegar and garlic in the water - you're certainly able to do whatever you wish with your own animals. And I suspect TxBred nailed it - you probably have nice, well-nourished, well-managed animals.</p><p></p><p>But, are you able to back up your claim that your goats drink more, maintain their weights, and have shinier coats all because of the vinegar and garlic?</p><p>Have you separated your flock into equal numbers of similar size/aged animals in similar phases of production and subjected one group to consumption of plain old water, while the other group gets your vinegar/garlic concoction - and then objectively measured water intake, weight gain/maintenance, etc., among the groups so that you can make valid comparisons between the control group(water only) to the treatment group(vinegar/garlic)? If not, how do you know?</p><p>If you're providing this to all the animals in the flock, you may be drawing invalid conclusions about whether there really is any benefit. That's a common problem with anecdotal 'evidence' - oftentimes it's not really evidence.</p><p> </p><p>As to hair shininess - I don't know how you'd measure coat luster unless you had some sort of light meter that would measure reflected light; otherwise, it's just an opinion and not a scientific fact.</p><p></p><p>B'lieve I'm about done whipping this dead horse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 857063, member: 12607"] Keren, I'm not telling you not to do the vinegar and garlic in the water - you're certainly able to do whatever you wish with your own animals. And I suspect TxBred nailed it - you probably have nice, well-nourished, well-managed animals. But, are you able to back up your claim that your goats drink more, maintain their weights, and have shinier coats all because of the vinegar and garlic? Have you separated your flock into equal numbers of similar size/aged animals in similar phases of production and subjected one group to consumption of plain old water, while the other group gets your vinegar/garlic concoction - and then objectively measured water intake, weight gain/maintenance, etc., among the groups so that you can make valid comparisons between the control group(water only) to the treatment group(vinegar/garlic)? If not, how do you know? If you're providing this to all the animals in the flock, you may be drawing invalid conclusions about whether there really is any benefit. That's a common problem with anecdotal 'evidence' - oftentimes it's not really evidence. As to hair shininess - I don't know how you'd measure coat luster unless you had some sort of light meter that would measure reflected light; otherwise, it's just an opinion and not a scientific fact. B'lieve I'm about done whipping this dead horse. [/QUOTE]
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