Another great thing about having goats

where I want to · #1 03/25/12, 10:23 PM

I always hated weeding and deadheading in my garden. Now it is such fun. The goatie girls see me heading for the roses or the veggie garden they come to the fence as close as they can get.
I toss the spend roses and various weeds to them and have fun giving them "goodies" that used to be such a pain to haul to the compost pile. It's more like a game now.
Sometimes I even cut things that don't need cutting just to give to them.

Goats are such useful and interesting creatures.

Shygal · #2 03/25/12, 11:39 PM

It wont be so great when they decide to weed and deadhead by themselves

Ranger · #3 03/26/12, 05:00 AM

Ah yes, Shygal, the old "pruning by goat" method. Around here it involves a lot of yelling, "no, stop that right now!!!". Which they totally ignore, of course. My poor roses are the prunee of choice every time. At least they leave the orchids alone.

Backfourty,MI. · #4 03/26/12, 06:47 AM

Sounds like me around here sometimes! Usually after I have all the flowers planted the goats don't get to free range as much, they get into too much trouble. My veggie garden has a fence around it so I'm good there.

prairiedog · #5 03/26/12, 06:52 AM

Our girls seem to know as soon as we pick up the clippers. Their fav is trimmings from the pecan trees.

KSALguy · #6 03/26/12, 09:38 AM

after my goats got into the Sandhill plum thicket one year and had their way with it the next season it was over loaded with plums, pruning by goat did wonders lol,

Sherry in Iowa · #7 03/26/12, 09:49 AM

Everyone always used to ask us how we managed to trim all the trees on our homestead to the same exact height. LOL...they were all "trimmed" exactly as high as the goats can reach on their back legs!