pasture for goats

[RockyToggRanch]

Many horse farms clean the stalls directly into the spreader and then hitch it up and spread it on the hay fields. As long as it is well-scattered, it should be ok. I will put 3-4 inches to smother if I want to kill a section, then the next year, it is gorgeous grass without even planting. But the goats avoid it the first year, so just do a patch this way if you want to smother something. I have some sections with nothing growing but useless wild strawberries and violets, so I am smothering those a bit each year. Otherwise, I fling well-composted stuff in the "good" areas and even on my lawn. In the veggie and flower gardens, too, of course! You can never have enough poop!

I use my aged manure everywhere as well. I didn't realize it was good to put fresh manure on a field where goats are actively grazing... A hay field or corn field...I can see.

My girls avoid any place that the horses poop. Even after it's been picked up. Heck..they even avoid places that they've pooped.

The kids on the other hand, like nothing better than to climb the compost piles and pounce on them...but even they avoid the fresh manure pile, come to think of it.