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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit Tree and goat care
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:35:59 -0700

Interesting. Here we have poison oak, which the goats eat with impunity
and, apparently, immunity. No immunity for the people who drink the milk -
you just have to wait until it's out of the goats' system.

You are right that any animal is trainable, and people do train their goats;
but training their eating habits away seems much more difficult than penning
them and having attractive food within the pen.

Stephen Sadler
USDA 9, AHS heat zone 8,
Sacramento CA - Mediterranean climate

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Nate
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:44 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit Tree and goat care

One time we had a goat who got loose from the tree where we had it
tied up too. It ended up eating some poison ivy (or some other
poisonous shrub) and never did again eat any more foilage. Moral of
the story, goats can be trained, even by themselves.






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