Goats favorite types or grasses/cold hardy grass?

[CrealCritter]

Sheep like grass better. Goats eat grass as almost last portion of their graze...they prefer browse and what commonly other animals want to leave uneaten...weeds. They do like hay. The change from fresh to dry appeals to them, preferably a mixed grass with some forbs in it. They love dandelions and honeysuckle plus the tree leaves.

Plus goats poop magic raisins.

 

[Mini Horses]

Goats don't like wet! So remember that. They will graze but prefer browse. They bite and walk so plant weeds they like...dandelions are favs. Plant vetch. Honeysuckle they love but, it can take over fast! I plant top heavy turnips. Get what they plant for deer food plots. Will be on sale soon, bags of mixed seed. How much acreage and how many goats?

 

[Azureduckchickgoat]

Goats don't like wet! So remember that. They will graze but prefer browse. They bite and walk so plant weeds they like...dandelions are favs. Plant vetch. Honeysuckle they love but, it can take over fast! I plant top heavy turnips. Get what they plant for deer food plots. Will be on sale soon, bags of mixed seed. How much acreage and how many goats?

I know goats don't like getting wet! That's why I'm trying to absorb the water. I can definitely get them some dandelions! Um in all we have 2.4 acres, not a lot. They will probably have a quarter of an acre. We are gonna start with two or three Nigerian dwarfs.

 

[flowerbug]

if you can set up paddocks in the area so you can do rotations that will help the grasses the most. you really want to avoid having them grazed back too hard. this will help improve your drainage too as the worms get more active. if your area is not near any sensitive areas of native forests and there is some clay you can add night crawlers as they can also really help drainage.

 

[Azureduckchickgoat]

Yep. 210x210 would yield To closer to 100x100, rounded.....lol. thanks!

But it will still get the same reply, buy hay!!! 😁. 3 adult nigerians will need it.

Of course i will buy hay!

 

[CrealCritter]

Sheep are grass eaters. Goats prefer browse but will eat grass when they dont have a choice.

Guess I'll find out soon enough, going to start pounding t-posts this week, for a little less than 5 acre pasture. Meat (hair) sheep are going for $3.25 a lb at auction as of last week. That's pretty expensive, way to high, if you ask me.

 

[Azureduckchickgoat]

My Nigerians love sumac more than anything else. They have cleared it out of their pasture! It used to be a forest of sumac!

They also adore pine trees. They'll eat the needles off a Christmas tree in a day and even strip the bark off.

My goats (2 Nigerian wethers) have cleared their pasture so its just grass now. They get whatever branches we prune, weeds from the garden, Christmas trees. They are 7 years old now. When they die we will probably use the pasture for some of our sheep.

cool, the area has lots of pines near so they will love that! Sumac sounds do able to!