permaculture

[jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>]

We've been conducting a similar trial, with increasing amounts in their 
nighttime feed rack. with no odd results. They graze feely about 18 to 20 
hours daily, so have a wide variety of things available to them.

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:01:06 -0700
> From: slowfoodguy@yahoo.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] Comfrey-goat trial
> 
> There was a question regarding the use of comfrey as a fraction of a goat's 
> diet, from James David Sneed I believe, that I'm interested in answering.  
> Partly because I have a lot of comfrey growing in my garden, and also 
> because I have a meat goat on a small urban farm that I'd like to feed 
> exclusively onsite.  This morning I started my trial, with one large 
> comfrey leaf, and she ate it preferentially to carrot, green beans, snow 
> peas, and leaf lettuce.  As with any new forage, and permaculture in 
> general, I want to go slowly with this one.  I think I'm being overly 
> cautious, but that always seems to pay off.
>  
> So what I'm hoping for is a few other people, especially from other 
> climates and soil types (I live in muggy zone 8 with loamy sand), and with 
> other breeds of goats (I have a Kiko), to join the trial.  Of course, if 
> you live in a muggy zone 8 climate with loamy sand and a Kiko I'd be glad 
> for the redundancy!  We could arrange the trial metrics as a group and 
> report back here with our findings.
>  
> Anyone interested?
> Tripp
> 
> 
> 
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> -Chinese proverb
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