Oct 31, 2011 #9 20kidsonhill True BYH Addict. Some horses love the taste of willow, staghorn sumac, and a few others. If you want to give your goat ram a boost in energy or boost its weight, then you can offer it additional concentrated feeds, herbivore pellets, fruits, veggies, or a little bit of grain every day. The more goats on the job, the faster they'll eat away an overgrown area. Goats also goatscape around the clock, though they do sleep, they eat more than sleep. Just a few types of vegetation that goats can eat and clear away include Thistle Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. For the most part, they can share the same foraging area such as a pasture, but goats should never be allowed to eat chicken feed, because the extra calcium in laying feed can create painful and deadly calcium issues within the goats, and grower feed is way too many calories of the wrong kind. Goats (and other farm animals) can eat all the poison ivy they want with no ill effects. No, goats can not eat stinging nettle plants. They consume just about all types of plant matter including seeds and some roots. We also acquired goats hoping to control ivy. They eat redwood branches. I must stress the fact that some poisonous plants can be eaten and not display any noticeable effects. Sumac propagates by rhizome . Some examples of poisonous plants include azaleas, China berries, sumac, dog fennel, bracken fern, curly dock, eastern baccharis, honeysuckle, nightshade, pokeweed, red root pigweed, black cherry, Virginia creeper, ... Goats can eat watermelon and there is a decent possibility that your goats will absolutely love it! 7. At several locations, plants up to 12-feet tall were killed in one to two years, whereas at one location goats refused to … They can get very sick ingesting large amounts of rhododendron, mountain laurel and holly. Remember, many plants are on that list because of their phytochemical constituents. Poison ivy, poison sumac and poison oak are not poison dormant in the winter. Male goats can eat the same foods as any female goat. Joined Jan 7, 2011 Messages 6,246 Reaction score 116 Points 243 Location Virgnia. My goats eat all the leaves that they can reach. Description Poison sumac is a woody perennial, branching shrub or small tree with gray bark and leaves to 12 inches long, each with a distinctive red-purple(leaf stem)rachis. Goats will eat almost any plant, even plants with thorns and plants that can harm humans! Goats though are not normally a fan of waxy-like leaves. TIL that goats are completely immune to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. It's much easier to say what they won't at least eat some. It Won't Hurt A Bit : Goats and Soda Amazon's getting into the rent-a-goat business (for weed chomping). They don’t eat much grass but they love brush! It's carbon neutral, very quiet, goats can landscape terrain unreachable by their human colleagues and are not affected by poison ivy, oak or sumac. California looked into it as an alternative control measure. I know goats can eat poison ivy and oak, but unsure of sumac. --Stocking rate: 1.7 steers per acre + 3.4 goats per acre versus 1.7 steers alone per acre--Paddocks where goats and beef grazed/browsed together were clean of brambles, sumac, poison ivy, honeysuckle, pigweed and black locust. While the common myth is that goats eat anything, the truth is that goats love invasive plants and overgrown brush. Preference seems to vary between breeds. Goats will selectively eat Poison Oak. They love the stuff and can eat several pounds a day. Flockworks, in the Cumberland Valley of Central Pennslyvania, is in the business of bringing goats to areas where landowners want vegation cleared, including poison ivy. Goats love kudzu, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and much more. I receive on an average, two to three emails a week asking what type of plants can be planted that goats will not eat. I know many of our readers don’t want to use a commercial herbicide which I understand. Pineapples are rather large in size and tough for goats to break through on their own. Some of our goats will only eat it at certain times of day, or after they eat other things first. It is important to know the plants that your goats eat and know the level of toxicity of these plants. Can Goats eat the roots of Poison Ivy? Posted by 23 days ago. They eat anything, but they especially love poison ivy, oak, and sumac. The greatest factor in determining what plant species a goat consumes is what they learned to eat from their mothers. What do goats eat? Success is limited. While goats can safely eat all parts of a pineapple, you can’t simply feed them the fruit as it is. I do not intentually feed/cut and serve either of these to my goats they strickly browse. Goats also enjoy munching on healthy fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, pears, peaches, bananas, grapes, carrots, lettuce, celery, pumpkin, squash, and spinach. In my years owning goats, I’ve learned that raising a healthy herd of goats can come naturally if you understand their behavior and instincts. In those paddocks, … I feed these everyday! High Toxicity - your goats ingest the toxic plant and immediately show a reaction. One of the most common misconceptions about goats is … 53.8k. They love the stuff and can eat several pounds a day. Keeping the happy herd from wandering is something the lawn-clearing landowner will need to consider. Almost any willow is goat snack. Smooth sumac is the only sumac my girls eat. It has been said that "goats will eat anything" and there are times when this statement could almost be true. Close. Let your goats eat what they want of these trees. The animals themselves are rarely if ever affected by the urushiol, and goats and sheep have been observed eating poison ivy without apparent problems. It is just as active in the winter as summer. But, what this all means, is that any tree that’s growing within a horse pasture should be safe to eat. 8. TIL that goats are completely immune to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. GOATS EAT’N GREEN! Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) – Control of this species varied with location, which must be the effect of plant palatability and the preference goats have for the species. In reality, goats do not eat the root of these plants. Ive got some on my property and keep getting it. Go Ahead, Little Goat, Eat Some Poison Ivy. We have a new poison ivy control service listed: our first goat-powered service. Goats will even eat poison ivy and many other pest plants. ANSWER: It may seem counterintuitive, but goats would rather eat weeds than grass. As long as they eat a healthy and balanced diet, goats can enjoy raisins, corn chips and even a few slices of bread. One of the best things about goats is that they can eat most plants, even ones that are poisonous to people, like poison ivy and poison oak. Your list includes alfalfa and oats! Goats will eat vegetation that other livestock won't touch and are able to clear brushy areas that are inaccessible to heavy equipment. Goats LOVE poison ivy! If you have the option, goats will eat and destroy poison ivy completely. Goats can also learn from their peers, although to a much lesser extent. I seem to have two different types of fern a dark and a light color, have seen them only eat the light green version. Group 1 was fed ground pine needles, group 2 was fed ground tips from branches, group 3 was fed ground bark and group 4 was controls. Goats will eat almost any vegetation and have a capacity to digest even plants with stickers and thorns. They love huckleberry, salal, brambles, some fern, reeds, etc. My goats eat a ton of black walnut and are doing just fine. Sumac is so easy to identify..I can see it off in the distance while driving down the hwy at 60- 70 miles an hour. It is not safe to clear poison areas in the winter. Click the link to visit their website Twenty-four mixed Spanish breed goats were divided into 4 groups of 6 goats each. All goats in groups 1 through … elevan said: Stacykins said: daisychick said: No cherry trees here. A safe method is Goats. So far they are enjoying, cottonwood, willow, black walnut, and apple tree leaves. It is a common misconception prevalent among the goat-owners that goats eat the roots of Poison Ivy as well. "The two white ones really like poison sumac," Chade Conrad, the assistant field manager for The Goat Girls, said. Farm to Fork Goats Eat weeds. Small shoots will be found growing near a more mature sumac tree via a shallow running root quite some distance from the primary tree. Our farm is covered in White Oak, Hickory and Sumac, we also have a nice stand of Junipers ( Sacred Cedars) These are all the Aromatic, red heart wood/white sap wood variety that are sacred to the Native Americans (First Peoples). At least they aren’t happy with grass alone. However, since they strip it of all the leaves and branches, the roots die on their own in most cases. Suddenly the statement that goats will eat anything becomes pretty difficult to dispute. Others nibble out of habit or curiosity, rather than hunger or taste. They pass on Chinese sumac, it stinks, and Staghorn sumac is usually to tall to reach. The waste they leave behind is fertilizer. Goats don’t eat grass. We had some friends who moved to a new home. Goats have long been considered an efficient and quick removal method, as they eat the bark, which helps prevent new shoots. To feed them pineapples, you can cut the fruit into tiny bite-sized pieces in order to make it simpler for them to eat, as well as to avoid any choking hazard. all the sumac I have ever cut has a slightly musky smell to.My goats would not eat it. BTW I prune in summer or early fall just so the goaties can eat … Doug fir, which is really a pine. They are looking at the phytochemical as a SINGLE, NOT as a whole (in the form of a plant). Goats in the garden are a win-win solution as long as you don’t have prize roses or other vegetation nearby … I think raising goats exclusively on forage from birth is helpful, but still not 100% effective. 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