Regional treats

[PotterWatch]

What regional things do your goats really enjoy? Here in So. California, our goats really enjoy palm fronds. They like all types of palms. It seems to be their favorite treat. They like to eat all the spiky thorny things off the sides of fan palm fronds as well as the green parts. We will cut palms and hang them in their pen. They'll go through a batch of palms in no time flat!

 

[SheepGirl]

Don't have goats, but my sheep really like to eat these (sorry, don't know what they're called):

 

[hcppam]

Don't have goats, but my sheep really like to eat these (sorry, don't know what they're called):
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Thistle? wow

 

[hcppam]

I'll have to go down the hill, and get some palm fronds.

 

[PotterWatch]

We have palm trees by the dozen here on our farm so we always have a good supply for the goats!

 

[EggsForIHOP]

Ours like the palms too! We live in a river bottom...and thus all the boggy spots grow "fan palms" I think they are called....it's the first thing they go for when I let them out to free range...skip right over the other stuff for those things...the horses even chew on 'em from time to time...and of course the "poisons" - poison oak, sumac....they LOVE that stuff...hubby has a nice rash right now from petting a goat that had been munching some poison something....

 

[HankTheTank]

Mine really enjoy all the pine trees which grow around here...kinda the opposite of palm trees

 

[redtailgal]

humff.

Mine wont eat NUTHIN. NO raisins, No dandelions, No clover, No wheat bread, MAYBE an apple if I let them eat it in the stanchion.

NOTHIN.

But, if they get out (which is rare) they go to the garden and eat the clover that they wont take from my hand.

the snots.

 

[mama24]

LOL! That's how mine are, Redtailgal!!!

I've just been letting mine out of their pen to do whatever they want. No garden yet, and my MIL covered up my azaleas with netting b/c they apparently LOVE those. They were on my front porch yesterday eating the oak pollen tassles, flowers, whatever you call them, off of everything! Off the porch floor, the grill, chairs, gobbling them up like there's no tomorrow. But they won't touch a thing that's been on the ground. They are too good for that. lol

 

[Chris]

Mine go nuts for Stinging Nettle and Burdock.

Chris