Got my xmas tree load last night

[mpillow]

15 trees for the goat-ees!

They came out in the dark of night to nibble.... :1pig: :1pig:

Oh Christmas tree!
Oh Christmas tree!
Your branches green delight us!

[HilltopDaisy]

Thanks for the reminder. I'll pick them up over the next week or so, too.

[PETSNEGGS]

Okay someone please fill me in.... do you mean that you feed your goats the christmas trees after they come down from the holidays? I didn't know goats would eat pine.

[thaiblue12]

I picked up 7 on Christmas day and left the other half for someone else. She never showed so I get to go and get the other 7 or so
Yes goats love pine. One tree has been mostly stripped including the bark. They have one in the barn that they are going at as well. Due to the nasty snow and cold I think the other trees will be well preserved for a bit.

[mpillow]

Yes mine keep for a long time....its snowing on them today.

I put the Charlie Brown trees in the barn tonight at chore time..as the goats wont go out in the weather

Yes goats love pine....especially goats in the frzn north where pine is the only green food source....It keeps them busy more than anything Not much beyond vit. c and roughage but they do like it, bark and all.

Even my 6m old calf(steer) nibbles on it....he wouldnt want the goats to get more than him :1pig:

[PETSNEGGS]

Wow, thanks tons... I'll have to try it and see how mine like it... I am lucky that we do have water oaks and such that still have leaves on them so I trim the branchs for them everyday... but what a great way to recycle that christmas tree. thanks!