Goats eating from rotting red oak logs in run.

[feathernfiber]

I have my first goats & we live in the woods The goat pen is on a wooded ridge. . I cut up a large red oak 5 years gone into logs and placed 2 logs inside the run, with the remainder of the tree in licking distance outside the fence. The new Nigerian doe is after the one outside which she can't eat,, and the doeling is all over and into the stumps. They're eating pieces off it instead of the bark off the striped maples or many other types of browse here. Is it still poionous to them as are leaves & acorns? The doeling likes last year's old oak keaves as well. Forest here is mostly maple & pine, but they're going for oak? Should I roll out these logs & build some climbing things instead? They're having fun hopping log to log.

 

[Fluffygal]

Goats due eat bark off of trees. As browsers when they have a big area to choose from they eat little bits of this n that.
Goats love the woodsie parts of plants along with the leaves. Dry leaves are like pringles chips to them. They just can't have 1!

The back part of my property is pretty wooded and they love eating a bit of whatever is growing back their.
Normally they would not eat rotted or moldy stuff as this would not be good for them. If it is moldy I would remove it from their reach.
When they are penned they are dependant on us to bring them food and browse.