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yuiyoshida

(41,832 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2015, 02:58 PM Jan 2015

Farmers say Christmas trees make great goat snacks

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Farmers say Christmas trees make great goat snacks (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jan 2015 OP

Before you give them as a snack question everything Jan 2015 #1

Give them to the goats first passiveporcupine Jan 2015 #3

$40 for a leftover tree? somehow that sounds way pricey nt msongs Jan 2015 #2

question everything

(47,487 posts)

1. Before you give them as a snack

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:44 PM

Jan 2015

put them in the back yard and string some popcorn for wild birds to snack. Especially in cold, frozen areas where there is not much on shrubs for them.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)

3. Give them to the goats first

Reply to question everything (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 05:58 PM

Jan 2015

The goats will strip the trees of needles, small twigs and some bark, leaving tree carcasses that will be easier for the birds to perch on, and to string popcorn on. Just won't look quite as pretty.

msongs

(67,420 posts)

2. $40 for a leftover tree? somehow that sounds way pricey nt

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 04:32 PM

Jan 2015

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