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06/14/08, 03:24 PM
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Goats are now in "The Jungle"....
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06/14/08, 03:25 PM
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Great pictures! too bad about the Union rules...LOL 
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06/14/08, 08:15 PM
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I love it. I sent it to my husband as we have a jungle I'd like to have cleared but he calls it his secret raspberry patch. I don't have goats (yet?) -- how do you lead them back to the barn?
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06/14/08, 10:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by meganwf
I love it. I sent it to my husband as we have a jungle I'd like to have cleared but he calls it his secret raspberry patch. I don't have goats (yet?) -- how do you lead them back to the barn?
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Well - much to the embarassment of my wife - I stick my tongue out and give them a long, loud, beller - "BLAAAAAAH"!
They come running......
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06/15/08, 06:40 AM
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Heh. About the middle of May each year I turn mine out into the orchard pasture where the grass has gotten about waist high. They go nuts, burning more calories than they're eating because they run from place to place sampling their favorites. Later they settle down and start the serious eating, finally waddling back to the barn with bulging bellies. They sit down in their stall and gurgle contentedly for awhile.
It must be nice standing out in food higher than your head, particularly after the half-rations they got put on in January when the hay started to run out. Occasionally they lose one another and there's a bawling fit thrown until everyone is located in the tall grass.
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06/15/08, 08:01 AM
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The bawling gets louder when mom can't find her kids and they can't see her! It usually ends up that they are 10-12 feet away - just out of sight.
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06/15/08, 12:52 PM
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i think it sounds wonderful to have goats
may7be next year i will have some also and then i will
post pics of them
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06/15/08, 12:57 PM
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Hopefully you've got lots of baking soda out there, and are watching them like hawks for bloat.
Cute pics, boy do they look happy.
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06/15/08, 03:01 PM
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Yup, there is plenty of soda out there. I'm going to put them in one day, take them out for a day or two, then work them back into it. I did it the same way when I opened up a pasture a couple years ago. Seemed to be fine.
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06/15/08, 03:46 PM
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It's mostly water-rich plants like clover that are going to cause you the bloat. I only have problems with it when they go sit in the clover pasture and eat until they're going to pop. The pasture like you've got should be fine unless they've been on drylot for a long time.
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06/15/08, 04:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernie
It's mostly water-rich plants like clover that are going to cause you the bloat. I only have problems with it when they go sit in the clover pasture and eat until they're going to pop. The pasture like you've got should be fine unless they've been on drylot for a long time.
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Yeah, I figured so but, there is a little clover mixed in here and there. Not TONS, but some. I have to build the shelter yet, so I can keep tabs on them and limit their time for now.
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06/17/08, 07:41 PM
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Ah, you have me drooling with envy, Scroungman! I don't have the next section I need to clear fenced yet, so my poor goaties are reduced to "working on the line", lol. Lots of salal, oregon grape, hemlock saplings, and scotch broom to be chewed down.
The woods that I cleared by goat a couple years ago are so open now! Unfortunately, I still have a lot of dead salal sticks and other undergrowth debris to burn, so I work on that a bit at a time as I can. I'm planting pasture seed as I go and it is open enough under the trees now to grow. It's so nice to see more pasture coming along.
Loved your pics!
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06/17/08, 07:56 PM
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I have a "jungle" too. Is it safe to let goats into a place with stinging nettle? I noticed a bunch of it in there.
Will they eat up all the blackberry leaves and fruit?
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06/17/08, 08:13 PM
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They will LOVE the nettle and it won't hurt them. As for the berries -
Both the berries and the plants will be attacked with great haste and efficiency......
Blackberry bushes are on the "favorite French food" list for goats...
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06/17/08, 08:13 PM
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Yes, yes, and YES! They love nettles and blackberries.
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