Goat Treets

Here at Sunny Acres, we have goats who enjoy their treets to eat. Yes, we know how to spell, but we literally are feeding out... tree(ts). Here are some photos showing goats' enthusiasm for browsing. Sure, they'll happily turn mixed-grass forage into a meal any day, but give a goat a brushy area to clear, and suddenly that meal is a very happy one- because... it's full of treets! 

Where a corner of a field has been lost to a variety of shrubs and understory growth, and a large pine is being crowded badly, the goats were called in to work and enjoy a day of brush-munching. 

Downed tree? No problem. The goats will make quick work of the leaves in no time! They even clean up poison ivy. The only itchy rash that results from that is when a friendly goat rubs her urushiol-covered self on you as a manner of saying hello. Farm-daughter here may be speaking from personal experience on that one, but I digress. 

They aren't termites, so there will still be some cleanup to do, but why waste all that great growth when goats will happily make a meal of it?

In the end, the field boundary is back to the original location, the pine tree is opened up a bit, and the goats go to bed with full... rumens. And that, dear reader, is a happy ending. 

Thanks for taking the time to check in on Sunny Acres!

~M.McIlroy,

Farm-Daughter, 

Goat-Midwife, 

Collector of farm stories