The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: colliewoman on March 26, 2013, 07:39:39 pm
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Did my gardening job today and had to thin out the bamboo patch. I trimmed the stems up for canes for the garden and was left with an enormous pile of bamboo leaves.
My goats now think I am God ;D ;D ;D
The sheep are enjoying it too, I am sorely tempted to plant some to crop for winter fodder :thumbsup:
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are you breeding pandas?
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are you breeding pandas?
Nah, they are rubbish at it ;D
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How to make friends and influence (goaty) people. :roflanim:
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My goats also love pampas grass and the many (many) massive ornamental grasses planted by the previous owner. I had noticed for the last few years that they were self-seeding into multiple clumps all round the garden and, pre-goats, decided to get my husband to zap them with weedkiller. Now I'm glad I didn't because they grow and re-grow from cropping armfuls all summer and the goats wolf them down.
In the past I used to burn the stems when I chopped them back and they gave off a burnt-sugar smell so I imagine that is why the goats like them so much: mini-sugar cane.
I'm also planting tiny self-sown goat willows all round the edge of my garden because the girls love every part of it. When I walk my dogs round local lanes there are lots of 6" high seedlings in the verges which I pull out and all I need to do is make a tiny hole with a garden cane and stuff them in when I get home. Last week I found almost a whole large goat willow that someone had dumped illegally - so I very kindly tidied it up...
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My goats also love pampas grass and the many (many) massive ornamental grasses planted by the previous owner. I had noticed for the last few years that they were self-seeding into multiple clumps all round the garden and, pre-goats, decided to get my husband to zap them with weedkiller. Now I'm glad I didn't because they grow and re-grow from cropping armfuls all summer and the goats wolf them down.
In the past I used to burn the stems when I chopped them back and they gave off a burnt-sugar smell so I imagine that is why the goats like them so much: mini-sugar cane.
I'm also planting tiny self-sown goat willows all round the edge of my garden because the girls love every part of it. When I walk my dogs round local lanes there are lots of 6" high seedlings in the verges which I pull out and all I need to do is make a tiny hole with a garden cane and stuff them in when I get home. Last week I found almost a whole large goat willow that someone had dumped illegally - so I very kindly tidied it up...
Its when you keep goats you realise the value of these things, one mans tin is another mans gold ;D
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Mine love ornamental grass as well. Unfortunately, it's right next to the pear tree which they like even more.