This blows my mind!...

snoozy · #1 01/02/10, 01:06 PM

I have been letting my goats out to run around the clearing and trim whatever they feel like. It is winter and so there isn't much for them to truly destroy, or so I thought. (All you experienced goatherds are laughing already, aren't you?)

I have a Philadelphus (mock orange bush) which needed pruning, but they have been a little too enthusiastic, so I thought, what can I put on it to make it distasteful? Aha! Cayenne! So I sprinkled a large amount of cayenne powder on the branches. Some of it fell on the ground as well.

I could not believe it -- they went for the cayenne like it was goat minerals! Now they think Philadelphus au poivre is the best thing since sliced bread. Guess I'll have to go buy some fencing to protect it. Who'da thunk?!

Goat Servant · #2 01/02/10, 02:24 PM

LOL Your goats are perfectly normal! They do like to mess with us.

Minelson · #3 01/02/10, 02:33 PM

hee hee...I did the same thing to the trunk of one of our evergreen trees that I didn't want destroyed. They loved it!!! UGH! So now there is a fence around the tree.

Backfourty,MI. · #4 01/02/10, 09:06 PM

Snoozy, that was my best laugh all day, at your thread! That is too funny.

I fence anything I don't want my goats to eat & if they come too close to the house & I'm afraid for my flowers I get the hose out(well not in the winter). They don't come up to the house in the winter, too much snow in the yard I guess. Other than the buck, he was following me right into the garage yesterday.