No herd yet, but I do have 5 acres of poison oak

[SageHill]

Where do you see it available? All the sites I'm looking at refuse to ship to Calif...

Tractor Supply (my local one) and Amazon on a quick search.

 

[fat brown hen]

Tractor Supply (my local one) and Amazon on a quick search.

 

[farmerjan]

Are you shipping to a PO Box? Somethings can only be shipped to a physical address.... and it might be the state also... Just a thought.

 

[fat brown hen]

Are you shipping to a PO Box? Somethings can only be shipped to a physical address.... and it might be the state also... Just a thought.

No, I haven't entered any address. They geofenced my location based on my IP address.

 

[fat brown hen]

Thank you to everyone for all the good information. I think the next step is to set up some tall fence panels and see if I can rent/borrow a couple of local goats to test on a small area and see how they do. I chatted briefly with a neighbor yesterday who is in the same situation as me (steep slope, overgrown brush), BUT he has 3 goats and still spends a lot of time cutting poison oak by hand.

He said that he would need at least a dozen to do any brush clearing, as his goats prefer to walk around and pick out what they like. I tried to ask whether he could walk his goats on a leash instead of carrying a gas-powered weedeater. He doesn't speak much English so some things may have been lost in translation...

 

[SageHill]

Well dang - looked like I could get it at my TSC. I know I can’t get the “I” drench for my sheep shipped, but I do buy it at my TSC.

 

[fat brown hen]

Well dang - looked like I could get it at my TSC. I know I can’t get the “I” drench for my sheep shipped, but I do buy it at my TSC.

I can probably find it at some of the smaller hardware stores. These herbicides were only banned in 2020, so I bet some places still have leftover stock.

This is a photo of the type of stuff I am dealing with... being on a slope, the trees don't grow perpendicular to the ground. The light-green leaves are poison oak, and the dark-green leaves are stems from the oak tree.

 

[SageHill]

I can probably find it at some of the smaller hardware stores. These herbicides were only banned in 2020, so I bet some places still have leftover stock.

This is a photo of the type of stuff I am dealing with... being on a slope, the trees don't grow perpendicular to the ground. The light-green leaves are poison oak, and the dark-green leaves are stems from the oak tree.

When you find it, stock up. Heck go the TSC and ask for it, ya' never know they might special order it for you (perhaps they've got it in a local wherehouse??). While I haven't gotten that, I have special ordered sheep minerals from them with no problem, and they even called about the time I'd need more and asked if they could order it for me again. Gotta love that kind of service.
Fingers crossed you can find it and get it.
OR maybe someone else has something they've used that works.

 

[canesisters]

Thank you to everyone for all the good information. I think the next step is to set up some tall fence panels and see if I can rent/borrow a couple of local goats to test on a small area and see how they do. I chatted briefly with a neighbor yesterday who is in the same situation as me (steep slope, overgrown brush), BUT he has 3 goats and still spends a lot of time cutting poison oak by hand.

He said that he would need at least a dozen to do any brush clearing, as his goats prefer to walk around and pick out what they like. I tried to ask whether he could walk his goats on a leash instead of carrying a gas-powered weedeater. He doesn't speak much English so some things may have been lost in translation...

If your neighbor has goats already... could you work out some sort of deal where You purchase enough to make up that dozen he needs and yall share the herd until the job is done and then send them to an auction & split the sale price???? I suspect that they WILL pick what they think is tastiest first, but will then eat pretty much everything else once the choicest bits are gone?

 

[murphysranch]

I could mail you some, at your cost. Will I get in trouble?????