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Weed control is the main reason we keep goats on our property. The goat meat may be eaten and many people love the milk as a beverage or for its hypo-allergenic properties in making lotions, soaps and salves. We don't eat them and we tend to keep bucks or wethers. They are entertaining pets and of course they can be cute when they are young. Our goats are protected from predators and kept in the areas we want them to be within by an "electro" mesh fence. The fence is portable and easy to relocate on the property when the goats have done their job of munching down the poison ivy and other weeds. We use a fencer from Premier 1 Supplies. The staff at Premier is knowledgeable and friendly. The service we have received is top notch. You can learn more about the electric net fence by following this link.
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Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you? We have our share of poison ivy on the property and Marty is likely to stumble through the leaves of three. For at least the past year, we have been thinking about eradicating the ivy patch and these two have been hired to do the work. The lyric from the 1940's whimsical tune Mairzy Doats quoted above indicates a kid'll eat ivy too. So for the past two weeks the two grown up kids, named Ivy and Kid (Kid has the brown or red face), have been on our property. Yesterday Ivy was observed happily chewing the nasty leaves of three, so as our neighbor says "You go girl." 
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AuthorsJulie has worked in the horticulture world for over 25 years. She has a degree in English Literature from University of Michigan. She is a member of the American Garden Writers Association. Archives
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