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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

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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