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It's very nutritious forage if you keep it under
control. Nitrogen fixing plant, a legume so there is more protein in the
foliage. But watch it closely. When we lived in Georgia it covered
houses and barns that were abandoned. Hector Blac, zone 6
middle tn Don't have it so bad here except Chattanooga where it has
killed forests.
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:52
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] goats
I have a very old USDA book, where some man was just extolling the
virtues of kudzu as a renewable hay crop. like clover.
He did make a small comment about how the edges of the field needed to be
regularly plowed to keep it in control.
It was either late 1800s or very early 1900s.
Amy
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Louis Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
wrote:
Cows get out if you leave the gate open.
Sheep get out
if they need something.
Goats get out because they want to see what the
world looks like from the hood of your car.
Saw a presentation on
using goats to control(eradicate?) kudzu, a couple of weeks back - had
photos of goats 25 ft above ground, in trees, eating kudzu leaves.
Granted, they got there by climbing up limbs/treetops that had been pulled
down by the kudzu vines &/or broken out by ice storms.
9
goats/acre did a pretty good job of reining the kudzu in(at least what they
could reach), but I suspect it'll take multiple years of continued
defoliation to eradicate it from a premise.
Goats were never intended
to live and GRAZE in the hot, humid Southeastern US; browsing rough,
brushy overgrown properties is what they were designed to do
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Naomi Counides <naomi@oznayim.us> wrote:
Goats are not capable of shinnying up a tree truck but
I can see where they
could manage to stand in the low branches of a
fruit tree.
-----I once had a goat go up a ladder, and run around on the tin roof
of a shed. I have photos somewhere... I am just glad goats don't have
thumbs, or are carnivorous-- because then they would rule the world.
( they've got it pretty much like they want it, here, anyway)
Amy
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