Onions ok

[punkgirrl]

I have tried to keep my girls out of my garden. I am not winning. So I wanted t now if it would be ok if I grew some onions for them would that be ok? Not like tons but if I planted a few around there pen. What would you plant for your goats?

 

[ksalvagno]

If you are going to milk them, then I wouldn't plant onions. How about pumpkins. I'm sure there are plenty of other choices too.

 

[punkgirrl]

Oh great point I did not even think of that. I am not milking now as they are to young but great to think about for the future. I should have saved some seeds from my last planting to just toss in for then. But they are so rotten I would not put it past me to go pick up seed just for them.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

ya you don't want onions in your pasture if you are milking...
and pine trees also go to the milk as well....
but i'd give them to any goats that aren't getting milked. lots of christmas trees getting thrown out just gotta go pick em up.

for mine i'm growing: indian corn, sunflower seed, dry beans, peas, punpkins, mangels, parsnips, turnips,.... an of course the garden weeds and spent plants. plus they get raisins as treats.

yep, they are spoiled...

 

[warthog]

I would not give any of my animals onions. My vet tells me that is one plant/vegetable that most animals cannot tolerate and too many is highly toxic.

She told me a story of a guy here in Belize who was harvesting his onions and threw the tops to his cows, killed the lot of them.

Dont know, just what I have been told, but will go with my vet's advice

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

hmm.... actually i've read alot about animals eating bits of onion and garlic as a sort of animal intuition herb medicine. but i think if any living thing has too much of any one thing then it won't be good.

interesting......

 

[poorboys]

NO onions!! My buck loves watermelon!!!! but I have to feed it by hand, if it falls to the ground he won't eat it. also love the Pumpkins. Goood Luck.