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Goats as land clearers; Joyce Coomer enthusiastic about idea Goats are another environmentally friendly alternative to herbicides Click on headline for complete commentary By Joyce Coomer I've told Greg a few times that we need goats or sheep in the yard so we won't have to mow!!! Where we are and the way our farm lies, goats might stay around without our having to do any additional fencing, especially as most any animal running loose tends to head in our direction to start with . . . Any cattle I've ever been around will eat honeysuckle and the multifloral roses. Several years ago the neighbor's cattle cleaned the honeysuckle out of our fencerow right nicely. When I was a child, our cows kept the old fashion climbing red rose bush trimmed evenly on the chicken lot side of the woven wire fence by the yard -- the part of the rose bush in the yard did quite well, with its branches rambling widely, and we never did have wild roses growing in our pasture. My horse kept the climbing rose above the gate trimmed to six inches tall . . . I think she was eating it because I paid attention to it sometimes when she was nearby, as she would eat or pull up any tree or shrub-like growth near the fence that she ever saw me looking at. Now the deer are continuing her pruning . . . As I've not been around goats very much, I had never thought about using goats to help improve pasture grasses; that is another logical idea that gets ignored these days, and so much more environment friendly than extremely hazardous herbicides. - Joyce M. Coomer This story was posted on 2014-02-07 16:15:11
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