DonnaBelle
True BYH Addict
As my subject line hints, this is a post about other things my goats eat besides their small amount of grain and hay.
Oops, hit the wrong button, got to edit this, LOL
Anyway, my goats had a great fall eating deadfall from a huge pear tree accross the road from our ranch. The neighbor kindly allow me to pick up dead fall pears and feed them to my goats. As you can imagine, they loved them. That was October.
In September DH also planted about 4 acres in austrian winter peas and tall rye grass for them to have great winter pasture but alas, only about l/2 an inch of rain since then, so it's all sprouted but not grown much. So, unless we get some rain soon, no winter pasture for my goats.
BUT, a huge crop of persimmons from two large persimmons in the goat pasture, we knock them down with a fishing pole every day for about a month, and the goats are now persimmon tree trained.
There are two large pecan trees in the boy's pasture and they have been eating pecans for the past 3 weeks..
We also have a lot of multiflora roses growing in the fence lines on our ranch, and in winter the goats methodically go down all the fence lines and eat the rose hips and leaves.
And of course, last but not least, good ole aged honeysuckle vine, they love them too. Lots of that in the wooded areas of the ranch. We took them on a long walk yesterday and they had a lovely brouse of roses and honeysuckle.
I bought a couple of packages of mangle seeds online and I'm going to plant them in a small plot in the back yard this spring. My goats DO NOT have access to the back yard, so when the mangles mature, I'll just chop them up (or sweet talk DH into doing it for me with his ax and feed them as a small treat)
Just a few things my goaties like to eat, FYI....
DonnaBelle
Oops, hit the wrong button, got to edit this, LOL
Anyway, my goats had a great fall eating deadfall from a huge pear tree accross the road from our ranch. The neighbor kindly allow me to pick up dead fall pears and feed them to my goats. As you can imagine, they loved them. That was October.
In September DH also planted about 4 acres in austrian winter peas and tall rye grass for them to have great winter pasture but alas, only about l/2 an inch of rain since then, so it's all sprouted but not grown much. So, unless we get some rain soon, no winter pasture for my goats.
BUT, a huge crop of persimmons from two large persimmons in the goat pasture, we knock them down with a fishing pole every day for about a month, and the goats are now persimmon tree trained.
There are two large pecan trees in the boy's pasture and they have been eating pecans for the past 3 weeks..
We also have a lot of multiflora roses growing in the fence lines on our ranch, and in winter the goats methodically go down all the fence lines and eat the rose hips and leaves.
And of course, last but not least, good ole aged honeysuckle vine, they love them too. Lots of that in the wooded areas of the ranch. We took them on a long walk yesterday and they had a lovely brouse of roses and honeysuckle.
I bought a couple of packages of mangle seeds online and I'm going to plant them in a small plot in the back yard this spring. My goats DO NOT have access to the back yard, so when the mangles mature, I'll just chop them up (or sweet talk DH into doing it for me with his ax and feed them as a small treat)
Just a few things my goaties like to eat, FYI....
DonnaBelle