Christmas Trees??

[TroutRiver]

I just saw an add on craigslist looking for peoples' old christmas trees to use as goat forage! Will goats eat fir trees?? This is news to me...

[Alice In TX/MO]

Mine will eat pine and a *little* bit of cedar. Make sure any trees you get aren't sprayed with green paint or flocking.

[wintrrwolf]

From my understanding yes BUT I also read somewhere and this could be wrong if they eat to much there is a good chance that your pregnant does can abort.
And not sure if it is only a certain type of "fir" tree. My goats cleared all the lower branches of the evergreen in the pasture area but since it was here when I moved here not sure what it is.

[Natural Beauty Farm]

Pines are candy here

[Pony]

Hmm... I think I'll keep an eye out for some tasty goat noms!

[ozark_jewels]

They like the cedar branches, but they LOVE the cedar bark. Pines too. I'd be leary of christmas trees though unless I was sure they were natural raised and not bought from a christmas tree dealer. Not sure if all do, but some spray with things that are not really visable.

[genebo]

My goats have killed all the cedar trees in their paddocks from eating the bark off of them.

My neighbor has an abandoned Christmas tree farm. I bring home white pine trees to throw on my burn pile. The goats will strip the needles and bark. When all the bark is gone, I burn the remainder and spread the ashes.

Genebo
Paradise Farm