[Jacob-list] goats

[Mary McCracken]

I walk with a backpack sprayer every two weeks of so and spray thistles.  My
place had its share of weeds when I bought it.  Hauled off a pick up load of
grain bags filled with thistle seed heads the first year.  Tried shoveling
out the roots and produced multi stemmed thistle plants.  Finally turned in
my hippy badge and bought a sprayer.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chovhani <melanie.boxall at sympatico.ca>
To: jacob-list <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] goats


>Not sure about milkweed, but no, my goats avoid thistles. At the end of the
>Summer the pasture is bare with all these tufts of thistles sticking up,
>no-one touches them. The only place the thistle gets eaten is in the pig's
>enclosure. They eat ANYTHING.
>Melanie
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>"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing
>it!"
> - Gary Zukav
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Thomas Simmons <creagchild at monad.net>
>To: jacob-list <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>; <cheapcritters at yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:16 PM
>Subject: [Jacob-list] goats
>
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>Question for Goat-folk:
>
>I have many stubborn patches of thistle and milkweed that I would like to
>get rid of in various areas of my pasture.  Some agri-friends have
suggested
>that I run a couple of goats with my sheep, as they will eat the stuff.
>
>Has anyone tried this successfully?  Any particular kind of goat better
then
>th'other? Especially for milkweed & thistle?
>
>thom
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