will goats eat palms ?

[trioderob]

lets say you want to get a goat to control your brush and weeds - will the goats mess with the palms ????

[Neil C]

I've seen a goat eat a plastic bag so I'm sure a palm would be high on the menu. If cows are eating Cindy's palms a goat would 10x worse.

 

Regards Neil

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Yes, goats will eat palms. 

[Stevetoad]

No . They just prune them to the ground level

[monkeyranch]

I'm not sure goats even know what they are eating at any given moment.  The "chomp-chomp" switch seems to be just stuck on and they always look very pleased while mowing everything down.   They eat thorny blackberries and even poison oak around here.  They'll eat everything off of an island.  If they were any more successful they might eat the internet, the earth, and the universe.  A black hole might just be the mouth of a very large goat.

I always get a chuckle when I see them 20' up in a tree, doing what they do.

[trioderob]

you guys are really getting my Goat

[trioderob]

[Neil C]

Here you go!

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

[monkeyranch]

Rob, I don't think that one port-a-john is going to handle all those goats over the course of a work day. 

 

 

 

[GMann]

I read somewhere that the reason you hardly ever see Chamaerops with trunks in their natural habitat is that goats eat them and thus keep them low to the ground. There is a walled cemetery in a village in Morocco that has some very tall Chamaerops Ceciferas and the reason cited in the article is because goats cannot get into the cemetery.

[Pando]

Just plant Acrocomia, Astrocaryum, and the like. Throw in some Salacca and Plectocomia also for a good measure. They'll be safe.