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We raised goats growing up. We lived in a heavily forested area of rural Texas. When it came time to build a new chicken pen, we temporarily fenced our goats in
by sillyquiet 7y ago
We raised goats growing up. We lived in a heavily forested area of rural Texas. When it came time to build a new chicken pen, we temporarily fenced our goats in the area we wanted the pen, and in a week or three, there was no underbrush or scrub left (except for yaupon, even goats don't touch that one) - just the trees.
- stinos 7y agowe temporarily fenced our goats This sounds so much easier than it practically is - unless you're talking electrical fence or have something really decent you can setup temoporarily? Our goats destroy, both willingly and unwillingly, any simple fence in hours or days. no underbrush or scrub left - just the trees We have a rather large species of goats (maybe largest, something Nubian) and they eat the bark of trees so unless you get them away from the tree or the tree has a sufficient diameter which makes it hard enough to get their teeth on it, at least 30cm or so, the trees also don't survive :)
- sillyquiet 7y agoPine trees the primary tree we had present, they have rather resinous bark the goats did not eat. The fence was pretty robust - the only 'temporary' part of it was the actual fencing. The posts were bedded in cement with sturdy chain-link fencing. After the goats were done, my father and older brothers removed the chain-link and substituted it for chicken wire to form the basis for the new chicken pen.
- pvaldes 7y agoI have to search yaupon, is a holly. It seems that is the only North American native plant with caffeine. Is interesting that Mate drink cames also from another holly producing caffeine, so it makes sense. The genus is pretty poisonous, but it even the goats respect it its chemical defenses must be really impressive. There are not a lot of plant species that goats avoid.