This message is from: "MoonWise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How about goats? will they eat [acorns]?< Yes, and just about anything else. But if you live in the northwest, Rhodendron are very poisonus to goats and they eat it willingly. Bracken is mildly poisonus to goats, but they will avoid it is there is other forage. I use my goats in rotation with the horses. They clean up the browse and brush leaving the grass for the horses. I have had the goats in with my mare, when there was grazing enough for everyone, but the filly is too"energetic" to trust to play nice with the much smaller critters. Wilting leaves of all stone fruit trees produce an alkaloid that is extremely toxic. I lost a young goat one year when he ate the leaves off of a Apricot branch that had been pruned a few hours before. He was curled up dead the next morning. Fresh leaves are OK.
