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meeee
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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: What will goats not eat? |
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Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats will
not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in
some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already has
lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks  |
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Jonno
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
| Quote: | Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats will
not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in
some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already has
lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks :)
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Goats will eat anything.
They wont eat Electric fenced plants. Mind you it will also surprise
your Mum at times and give her heart quite a Rev/start. |
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meeee
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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| Quote: | meeee wrote:
Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats
will not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled
shade in some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and
already has lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks :)
Goats will eat anything.
They wont eat Electric fenced plants. Mind you it will also surprise
your Mum at times and give her heart quite a Rev/start.
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Lol!! I know.....she needs to do that. I think she thinks it's charming the
way they stare stupidly through her glass doors..... |
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Jonno
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
| Quote: | "Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil
is dry, sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also
suffers from marauding goats....her own, but still.....so she's
put in a request to all you gardening gurus for plants that will
handle dry conditions that goats will not eat...she will be very
very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in some parts and full
sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already has lavendar
and rosemary growing. Thanks
Goats will eat anything.
They wont eat Electric fenced plants. Mind you it will also
surprise
your Mum at times and give her heart quite a Rev/start.
Lol!! I know.....she needs to do that. I think she thinks it's
charming the way they stare stupidly through her glass doors.....
Er is it the goats or is it her....staring stupidly (no offence,
electric or otherwise) I mean. Goats were designed to eat anything.
Anyone keeping goats that will not eat everything, has a defective
goat or mind. Goats go to great lengths to eat the uneatable. Your
mother will become quite smart after having been butted on the
bbbut. Goats are quite tricky. This is why the devil is sometimes
seen in the guise of a goat.
You cannot trust goats. (All this information was taken of the Net
and is ISO 9001 certified.) (Except the bit about) your mother who
is probably in the spell of "charming goats" Snap her out of it
before its too late... (GRIN!) Dont let her even think about
donkeys.
She thinks donkeys are sweet...enough said. Dad has put his foot down
on that one fortunately. She's quite good at keeping them out of the
vegie garden....many years of trial and error....but she'd like a
'flower garden' out the front. Or any garden. Right now she has lots
of rocks, some dead leaves, sand, aloe vera and lavendar. Oh, and the
rosemary.I might just suggest she gets more of that. I'm going to
have a chat to her about natives too; I'm sure there are quite a few
in the bush around her house that they won't touch, so I think she
should try getting her hands on those.
Where/what place exactly is she?
SE Qld, Granite Belt area. So the soil is basically very fine granite.
I'm not sure about local native nurseries but last I recall there
weren't many for some reason, or they were miles out of town.
It seems the goats are in the wrong area. Theres nothing to eat except
you Mum's garden! (grin!) I reckon she may be in a sparsely populated
and vegetated area. Possibly alkaline soil. suggest getting onto this
site for help
http://www.check-in.com.au/Brisbane/Pohlmans_Nursery.htm
http://farrer.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/APOL2006/aug06-1.html
As to whats goat resistant, what a question to ask.
Try tin cans? As suggested previously. electrify the garden. Which
reminds me
I once wired a tree with Christmas tree lights, full 240 volts to the
trunk one nice wet day, no trouble with goats, but the tree died.
Shocking.....
Lol you make me laugh.... yes, she is in an open woodland type area, so
not a lot of forage unless you're a roo. Only you can't milk roos. So the
goats get hay, grain etc...thanks for the link, I'll look it up and give
her some names...she seems to think the internet will burn or
something.....thanks for that
Whoops the pohlmans link died. Was OK last night...
I'ls see if I can find another....
I gave her that but she's a fair way from toowoomba, although she goes there
for shopping sometimes so she said she'll pop in and have a chat. Maybe she
should take the goat with her, let it loose in pohlman's, then buy two dozen
of whatever's left.
Zounds and Egad a fellow scientist. |
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Jonno
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
| Quote: | "Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"SG1" <lost@the.races.com> wrote in message
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Lol you make me laugh.... yes, she is in an open woodland type area,
so not a lot of forage unless you're a roo. Only you can't milk roos.
So the goats get hay, grain etc...thanks for the link, I'll look it up
and give her some names...she seems to think the internet will burn or
something.....thanks for that
Just tell her to cross her index fingers in front when given the info
from the net. It will purify it.
Jim
TFIC
Should she wave a bottle of eucalyptus oil over it?
Try this link from google and take your pick
http://www.homeimprovementpages.com.au/index.php?m=search&a=search_results&dosql=do_search&limit=10&page=10&search_practice=63&loctype=zip&search_region=&search_state=&search_zip=4305&search_str=&search_code=p
Oooh that's very comprehensive. Who knows, she might go on a nursery tour if
I give it to her...Dad's just bought a 'definitely not a midlife crisis
vehicle as it's not a Harley' motorbike so they might start a nursery
crawl.....
Geez I was hoping for an invite to a genu whine invite to a Queensland |
pub crawl. Good sites are hard to find. Most of em are under re
construction. It the goats dats did it. Ate all the zero's and one. |
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Sue Bilstein
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
| Quote: | Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats will
not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in
some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already has
lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks
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They'd rather not eat gorse and blackberry, if there's anything else
around!
Years ago I lived in Wellington (NZ) on a hillside section. The
landlord said I should borrow the neighbour's goat and tether it in the
garden above the house to graze down the gorse & blackberry. I can
attest that the goat didn't eat gorse and blackberry, though there
wasn't much else on offer. |
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meeee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:20 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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| Quote: | meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
news:455ba2b1$0$5109$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
meeee wrote:
"SG1" <lost@the.races.com> wrote in message
news:zxL6h.66668$rP1.3286@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Lol you make me laugh.... yes, she is in an open woodland type
area, so not a lot of forage unless you're a roo. Only you can't milk
roos. So the goats get hay, grain etc...thanks for the link, I'll
look it up and give her some names...she seems to think the internet
will burn or something.....thanks for that
Just tell her to cross her index fingers in front when given the info
from the net. It will purify it.
Jim
TFIC
Should she wave a bottle of eucalyptus oil over it?
Try this link from google and take your pick
http://www.homeimprovementpages.com.au/index.php?m=search&a=search_results&dosql=do_search&limit=10&page=10&search_practice=63&loctype=zip&search_region=&search_state=&search_zip=4305&search_str=&search_code=p
Oooh that's very comprehensive. Who knows, she might go on a nursery tour
if I give it to her...Dad's just bought a 'definitely not a midlife
crisis vehicle as it's not a Harley' motorbike so they might start a
nursery crawl.....
Geez I was hoping for an invite to a genu whine invite to a Queensland pub
crawl. Good sites are hard to find. Most of em are under re construction.
It the goats dats did it. Ate all the zero's and one.
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Pub crawls are usually every friday night....just pick a pub and join in.
Drink until you get booted out then crawl to the next....that's the
traditional pub crawl......I agree about the garden sites. And it's
definitely the goats. Possibly camels as well. I'm suspecting an alliance... |
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Jonno
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:20 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
| Quote: | "Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
news:455c39dc$0$21511$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
news:455ba2b1$0$5109$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
meeee wrote:
"SG1" <lost@the.races.com> wrote in message
news:zxL6h.66668$rP1.3286@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Lol you make me laugh.... yes, she is in an open woodland type
area, so not a lot of forage unless you're a roo. Only you can't milk
roos. So the goats get hay, grain etc...thanks for the link, I'll
look it up and give her some names...she seems to think the internet
will burn or something.....thanks for that
Just tell her to cross her index fingers in front when given the info
from the net. It will purify it.
Jim
TFIC
Should she wave a bottle of eucalyptus oil over it?
Try this link from google and take your pick
http://www.homeimprovementpages.com.au/index.php?m=search&a=search_results&dosql=do_search&limit=10&page=10&search_practice=63&loctype=zip&search_region=&search_state=&search_zip=4305&search_str=&search_code=p
Oooh that's very comprehensive. Who knows, she might go on a nursery tour
if I give it to her...Dad's just bought a 'definitely not a midlife
crisis vehicle as it's not a Harley' motorbike so they might start a
nursery crawl.....
Geez I was hoping for an invite to a genu whine invite to a Queensland pub
crawl. Good sites are hard to find. Most of em are under re construction.
It the goats dats did it. Ate all the zero's and one.
Pub crawls are usually every friday night....just pick a pub and join in.
Drink until you get booted out then crawl to the next....that's the
traditional pub crawl......I agree about the garden sites. And it's
definitely the goats. Possibly camels as well. I'm suspecting an alliance...
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Yep it was the goats again. Give up all hope for your mum....
Straight from Wikopedia this informing snippet.
This puts goats with animals such as rabbits and other vermin....
A goat is said to be truly useful both when alive and dead, ( I like
this bit, so it doesn't matter if you kill them(grin!)) providing meat
and milk while the skin provides hide. A charity is involved in
providing goats to impoverished people in Africa. The main reason cited
was that goats are easier to manage than cattle and have multiple uses.
Feeding goats
Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything. Many farmers use
inexpensive (i.e. not purebred) goats for brush control, leading to the
use of the term "brush goats." (Brush goats are not a variety of goat,
but rather a function they perform.) Because they prefer weeds (e.g.
multiflora rose, thorns, small trees) to clover and grass, they are
often used to keep fields clear for other animals. The digestive systems
of a goat allow nearly any organic substance to be broken down and used
as nutrients.
Contrary to this reputation, they are quite fastidious in their habits,
preferring to browse on the tips of woody shrubs and trees, as well as
the occasional broad leaved plant. It can fairly be said that goats will
eat almost anything in the botanical world. Their plant diet is
extremely varied and includes some species which are toxic or
detrimental to cattle and sheep. This makes them valuable for
controlling noxious weeds and clearing brush and undergrowth. They will
seldom eat soiled food or water unless facing starvation.
Goats do not actually consume garbage, tin cans, or clothing, although
they will occasionally eat items made primarily of plant material, which
can include wood. Their reputation for doing so is most likely due to
their intensely inquisitive and intelligent nature: they will explore
anything new or unfamiliar in their surroundings. They do so primarily
with their prehensile upper lip and tongue. This is why they investigate
clothes and sometimes washing powder boxes by nibbling at them.
Goats will consume, on average, 4.5 pounds of dry matter per 100 lbs of
body weight per day. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:20 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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| Quote: | meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her
soil is dry, sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also
suffers from marauding goats....her own, but still.....so she's
put in a request to all you gardening gurus for plants that
will handle dry conditions that goats will not eat...she will
be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in some
parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and
already has lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks
Goats will eat anything.
They wont eat Electric fenced plants. Mind you it will also
surprise
your Mum at times and give her heart quite a Rev/start.
Lol!! I know.....she needs to do that. I think she thinks it's
charming the way they stare stupidly through her glass doors.....
Er is it the goats or is it her....staring stupidly (no offence,
electric or otherwise) I mean. Goats were designed to eat
anything. Anyone keeping goats that will not eat everything, has a
defective goat or mind. Goats go to great lengths to eat the
uneatable. Your mother will become quite smart after having been
butted on the bbbut. Goats are quite tricky. This is why the devil
is sometimes seen in the guise of a goat.
You cannot trust goats. (All this information was taken of the Net
and is ISO 9001 certified.) (Except the bit about) your mother who
is probably in the spell of "charming goats" Snap her out of it
before its too late... (GRIN!) Dont let her even think about
donkeys.
She thinks donkeys are sweet...enough said. Dad has put his foot
down on that one fortunately. She's quite good at keeping them out
of the vegie garden....many years of trial and error....but she'd
like a 'flower garden' out the front. Or any garden. Right now she
has lots of rocks, some dead leaves, sand, aloe vera and lavendar.
Oh, and the rosemary.I might just suggest she gets more of that.
I'm going to have a chat to her about natives too; I'm sure there
are quite a few in the bush around her house that they won't touch,
so I think she should try getting her hands on those.
Where/what place exactly is she?
SE Qld, Granite Belt area. So the soil is basically very fine
granite. I'm not sure about local native nurseries but last I recall
there weren't many for some reason, or they were miles out of town.
It seems the goats are in the wrong area. Theres nothing to eat
except you Mum's garden! (grin!) I reckon she may be in a sparsely
populated and vegetated area. Possibly alkaline soil. suggest getting
onto this site for help
http://www.check-in.com.au/Brisbane/Pohlmans_Nursery.htm
http://farrer.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/APOL2006/aug06-1.html
As to whats goat resistant, what a question to ask.
Try tin cans? As suggested previously. electrify the garden. Which
reminds me
I once wired a tree with Christmas tree lights, full 240 volts to the
trunk one nice wet day, no trouble with goats, but the tree died.
Shocking.....
Lol you make me laugh.... yes, she is in an open woodland type area,
so not a lot of forage unless you're a roo. Only you can't milk roos.
So the goats get hay, grain etc...thanks for the link, I'll look it up
and give her some names...she seems to think the internet will burn or
something.....thanks for that
Whoops the pohlmans link died. Was OK last night...
I'ls see if I can find another....
I gave her that but she's a fair way from toowoomba, although she goes
there for shopping sometimes so she said she'll pop in and have a chat.
Maybe she should take the goat with her, let it loose in pohlman's, then
buy two dozen of whatever's left.
Zounds and Egad a fellow scientist.
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Well, basic grade 10 science anyway...develop a hypothesis and test it..... |
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meeee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:20 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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"John Savage" <rookswood@suburbian.com.au> wrote in message
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Try grass :-)
But stoned goats might come to the notice of the RSPCA.
Try concrete gnomes. Drought resistant, too.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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LMAO....and does Bunnings sell these Goat-proof, Drought Resistant Garden
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Jonno
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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Sue Bilstein wrote:
| Quote: | meeee wrote:
Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats will
not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in
some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already has
lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks :)
They'd rather not eat gorse and blackberry, if there's anything else
around!
Years ago I lived in Wellington (NZ) on a hillside section. The
landlord said I should borrow the neighbour's goat and tether it in the
garden above the house to graze down the gorse & blackberry. I can
attest that the goat didn't eat gorse and blackberry, though there
wasn't much else on offer.
It appears that goat was spoiled and educated. |
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meeee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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Yep it was the goats again. Give up all hope for your mum....
Straight from Wikopedia this informing snippet.
This puts goats with animals such as rabbits and other vermin....
A goat is said to be truly useful both when alive and dead, ( I like this
bit, so it doesn't matter if you kill them(grin!)) providing meat and milk
while the skin provides hide. A charity is involved in providing goats to
impoverished people in Africa. The main reason cited was that goats are
easier to manage than cattle and have multiple uses.
Feeding goats
Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything. Many farmers use
inexpensive (i.e. not purebred) goats for brush control, leading to the
use of the term "brush goats."
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'Bush Goats' in oz!!
| Quote: | Goats do not actually consume garbage, tin cans, or clothing, although
they will occasionally eat items made primarily of plant material, which
can include wood. Their reputation for doing so is most likely due to
their intensely inquisitive and intelligent nature: they will explore
anything new or unfamiliar in their surroundings. They do so primarily
with their prehensile upper lip and tongue. This is why they investigate
clothes and sometimes washing powder boxes by nibbling at them.
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Sure, maybe YOUR goats didn't, Wikipedia genius.... I used to get holes
chewed in my clothes (not explored or nibbled, but masticated), not to
mention shoes.....and we had one that broke in, ate a pot full of jam that
was cooling, and subsequently died. Mum was not pleased.....no jam, no goat.
Dad wasn't all that worried though for some reason.... |
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meeee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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"Sue Bilstein" <sue_bilstein@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | meeee wrote:
Mum rang me with a gardening problem regarding goats.....her soil is dry,
sandy, slightly acid and under gum trees. She also suffers from marauding
goats....her own, but still.....so she's put in a request to all you
gardening gurus for plants that will handle dry conditions that goats
will
not eat...she will be very very grateful!! It's sort of dappled shade in
some parts and full sun in others; she likes cottage gardens and already
has
lavendar and rosemary growing. Thanks :)
They'd rather not eat gorse and blackberry, if there's anything else
around!
Years ago I lived in Wellington (NZ) on a hillside section. The
landlord said I should borrow the neighbour's goat and tether it in the
garden above the house to graze down the gorse & blackberry. I can
attest that the goat didn't eat gorse and blackberry, though there
wasn't much else on offer.
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Lol I'd have to agree. I am thinking of amending that wikipedia entry for
the last writer; 'Goats will eat anything, but only if they are not supposed
to eat it. If they are supposed to eat it, they will develop a sudden and
inexplicable allergic reaction to the food.' You should have tried chaining
the goat within sight, but not actual reach of the blackberry, and scolded
it severely everal times daily about NOt eating the blackberry, and
definitely NEVER going near the gorse. Then the little bugger would have
busted his appendix breaking the chain to get to it. Regular failed attempts
to catch the animal or chase it away from the blackberry/gorse after it had
broken the chain would have ensured the complete destruction of the weeds.
Especially if there are two or three goats, as they egg each other on. |
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Jonno
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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meeee wrote:
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Yep it was the goats again. Give up all hope for your mum....
Straight from Wikopedia this informing snippet.
This puts goats with animals such as rabbits and other vermin....
A goat is said to be truly useful both when alive and dead, ( I like this
bit, so it doesn't matter if you kill them(grin!)) providing meat and milk
while the skin provides hide. A charity is involved in providing goats to
impoverished people in Africa. The main reason cited was that goats are
easier to manage than cattle and have multiple uses.
Feeding goats
Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything. Many farmers use
inexpensive (i.e. not purebred) goats for brush control, leading to the
use of the term "brush goats."
'Bush Goats' in oz!!
Goats do not actually consume garbage, tin cans, or clothing, although
they will occasionally eat items made primarily of plant material, which
can include wood. Their reputation for doing so is most likely due to
their intensely inquisitive and intelligent nature: they will explore
anything new or unfamiliar in their surroundings. They do so primarily
with their prehensile upper lip and tongue. This is why they investigate
clothes and sometimes washing powder boxes by nibbling at them.
Sure, maybe YOUR goats didn't, Wikipedia genius.... I used to get holes
chewed in my clothes (not explored or nibbled, but masticated), not to
mention shoes.....and we had one that broke in, ate a pot full of jam that
was cooling, and subsequently died. Mum was not pleased.....no jam, no goat.
Dad wasn't all that worried though for some reason....
You missed the bit about a charity supplying goats to people in South |
Africa.
A new export business, starting with your mums... |
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meeee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: What will goats not eat? |
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"Jonno" <Nohelp@nospamnet.org.au> wrote in message
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| Quote: | meeee wrote:
Yep it was the goats again. Give up all hope for your mum....
Straight from Wikopedia this informing snippet.
This puts goats with animals such as rabbits and other vermin....
A goat is said to be truly useful both when alive and dead, ( I like
this bit, so it doesn't matter if you kill them(grin!)) providing meat
and milk while the skin provides hide. A charity is involved in
providing goats to impoverished people in Africa. The main reason cited
was that goats are easier to manage than cattle and have multiple uses.
Feeding goats
Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything. Many farmers use
inexpensive (i.e. not purebred) goats for brush control, leading to the
use of the term "brush goats."
'Bush Goats' in oz!!
Goats do not actually consume garbage, tin cans, or clothing, although
they will occasionally eat items made primarily of plant material, which
can include wood. Their reputation for doing so is most likely due to
their intensely inquisitive and intelligent nature: they will explore
anything new or unfamiliar in their surroundings. They do so primarily
with their prehensile upper lip and tongue. This is why they investigate
clothes and sometimes washing powder boxes by nibbling at them.
Sure, maybe YOUR goats didn't, Wikipedia genius.... I used to get holes
chewed in my clothes (not explored or nibbled, but masticated), not to
mention shoes.....and we had one that broke in, ate a pot full of jam
that was cooling, and subsequently died. Mum was not pleased.....no jam,
no goat. Dad wasn't all that worried though for some reason....
You missed the bit about a charity supplying goats to people in South
Africa.
A new export business, starting with your mums...
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Oh, dad would be all for it, believe me....I'll have to mention it next time
I speak to him. He needs some new material I think....that should keep him
going for the next 6 months or so.... |
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