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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: earlybird on August 21, 2012, 06:28:05 pm

Title: goats eating asparagus
Post by: earlybird on August 21, 2012, 06:28:05 pm

hello wondering if any one can help us my 9 month old billy is a right escape artist, today he has got out and got to our asparagus bed and has been eating the ferny growth, does any one know if this is poisonous or not? thanks

Title: Re: goats eating asparagus
Post by: Lesley Silvester on August 21, 2012, 07:04:31 pm

Don't know about the ferny bits but my goats love asparagus spears.

Title: Re: goats eating asparagus
Post by: tizaala on August 21, 2012, 07:11:01 pm

asparagus might make his pee smell funny, nothing harmful. :relief:

Title: Re: goats eating asparagus
Post by: earlybird on August 21, 2012, 07:14:12 pm

thanks  for the replies might be able to get some sleep tonight now :eyelashes:

Title: Re: goats eating asparagus
Post by: jaykay on August 21, 2012, 07:27:25 pm

It's not poisonous but it makes your pee green and smell funny if you're human, so it probably will do with him too.

Life of Reilly your goats, being fed asparagus  ;)