OT Goats [was: RE: [TheForge] Beware the quiet welder]

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Frosty,

Do goats prefer to eat shrubs or pasture grass?  The reason I ask is my daughter and son-in-law have horses.  They also have 20 acres that is mostly overgrown with black jack oak, cottonwood, redbud, poison ivy, sumac, etc.  They are gradually trying to clear parts of it for horse pasture.  But, almost as soon as they clear an area, the voluntary trees and shrubs start to come back before they get the pasture grass growing.

I was just wondering if a couple of goats would eat the saplings but leave the grass alone.

Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost [akfrosty at mtaonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

Get a pair of goats. They're herd animals and aren't
really happy without a buddy of the same species. With
a few exceptions there aren't many shrubs that'll
survive a relationship with goats, poison ivy, oak,
sumac, etc. included. Hence the inspiration for the
title of the book, "Never Kiss A Goat On the Lips."

I do love the smell of wisteria though. <sigh>

Frosty
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