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To: Ladysforest

I am considering this too. Get a really good portable electric fence and move them around the property to clean it out. However, many folks familiar with goats have said that sheep are less picky and will eat bushes and small trees that goats won’t be interested in. The problem with sheep is that we have large coyote packs running around here and some of them are about the same size as my German shepherd.

I may try out pigs and fence them in the woods a 1/4 acre at a time to see how they do. Supposedly they root up everything! They taste better than goats or sheep although some mutton dishes are mighty tasty.


7 posted on 05/14/2012 10:23:18 PM PDT by volunbeer (Don't worry America, our kids can pay for it!)
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To: volunbeer

Rolled shoulder with salt, pepper, thyme and mint jelly is paradise. The best thing ever.


9 posted on 05/14/2012 10:29:22 PM PDT by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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To: volunbeer

You’re right about sheep being less picky. Sheep will even eat goatheads, which goats won’t touch. Goats are crazy. They’ll eat a shoe or a rope, but not goatheads. :) And sheep taste better IMHO.

If anyone’s wondering what goatheads are, it’s the nastiest plant I know of.

http://www.goatheads.com


13 posted on 05/14/2012 10:48:24 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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