Thanks for all the helpful replies. I went out yesterday early evening and picked a wheelbarrow load of nettles by hand. How long do they have to dry/wilt for before I give them to the goats? I got stung quite a bit despite wearing gloves so from now on we'll use the strimmer instead!
We have masses of nettle patches in the field, there are thousands of them, if we strim them and want to keep a load for the goats and sheep later in the year, is there a right way to store them? Or more importantly, is there a wrong way?!
I'm so glad I found this website, we are completely new to all this having just moved from the suburbs to our smallholding, and this forum is giving me a lot more confidence, so thanks very much.