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  • From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit Tree and goat care
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:32:10 -0400


Hello,

The town farm had a goat when I was a boy. It had rubber bike handle grips on it's horns. Possibly for stearing it. Ha, ha, ha. That was one cranky animal.

Tom

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:31:00 -0400, Nate <nrhora@gmail.com> wrote:

You can teach an old dog new tricks, so long as you don't have goats
influencing it. Then again, a dog should always have the gumption of
not letting a goat lead the way with it's horns.

On 7/11/06, Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net> wrote:


Hello,

Rule #1: Fruit/veggies and livestock NEVER co-mingle

(well if you live in a grass hut in
Africa, maybe) [smile]

Rule #2: Goats will eat anything, anytime

(That is why the old joke of goats eating
tin cans hangs on and on.)

Tom

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:41:42 -0400, Richard Moyer <ramoyer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Advice requested:
> We just bought 2 Nigerian Dwarf does, who are meeting our fresh milk
> needs.
>
> One went from the milking stand this morning to eating some weeds and
> hanging grapeleaves, which is what we like.
>
> When I looked up again, she had just pulled 2 big hunks of bark (4-5"
> long)
> from a 3" persimmon sapling, which we had recently topworked. That tree
> and
> two others like it are on my to do list to protect today, with 2"x4"
> fencing--somehow she knew! (She, so far, had avoided debarking all other
> saplings in their woodlot.)
>
> I put the goats in their fence, wrapped the persimmon trunk in parafilm
> and
> shaded it with cardboard.
> Any other advice on care of this trunk? 1/3-1/2 of the bark is gone in 2
> spots on the south side.
>
> Second question, for those with goat experience:
> Do we assume that goats will strip bark, anytime, any season, on any
> tree?
> If there an age/size of fruit tree that is ever avoided when plenty of
> other
> browse and concentrate is around? Or do I assume that any fruit tree,
> any
> size, may be debarked at anytime, thereby always fencing them out?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard Moyer
> East TN



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