Mary's Milk Monsters's video: What Do Goats Eat

What do you feed your goats? Mostly alfalfa, with goat chow containing grains, molasses and minerals. The Toggenburg goat is a very old dairy goat breed, originally from the Toggenburg Valley in Switzerland. Jasper is about 160 pounds, or 72.5 kg There are many things in the yard they love to eat. They would clear the whole farm in a week, so we fence an area and feed a little bit at a time. We live in USDA climate/plant zone 8 Japanese knotweed - Reynoutria japonica or Fallopia japonica or Polygonum cuspidatum - not a weed, contains resveratrol, our goats have no wrinkles Sitka Spruce Picea sitchensis - strong flavor which flavors milk Blackberry - larger European variety invasive versus the wild Oregon version. Good berries for jam and syrup - they eat this thorns and all...how?! Salmonberry - Rubus spectabilis - we always want to make jelly but birds and squirrels get them first. Pretty pink flowers in spring Alder tree - alnus rhombifolia - sweet scented leaves, good wood for smoked foods English cherry laurel - Prunus Laurocerasus - evergreen, grows fast, almost faster than they eat Fern - many varieties Horsetail - equisetum - draws minerals from the soil nutritious for goats and people Some poisonous plants X foxgloves or digitalis - pretty flowers, goats leave it alone X skunk cabbage - poisonous, stinky - strong sent like skunks when blooming X water hemlock - the big bad - don't even look at this plant X rhododendron/azalea - so bad it's not even in our yard X Columbine - wild and cultivated - almost lost Jelly with one bite