[MAIPC] J stiltgrass seeds passing thru goats guts??

[Elaine Schmerling]

And, I have found in cutting & stump treating multiflora patches, we find
oak and hickory seedlings underneath that we can save, and stack
multi-flora rose all around (which goats won't do and they won't
stump-treat)..

Also a neighbor used goats to clear EVERYTHING (and now has mowed grass) -
they paid more money for the goat-theatre than we would have paid workers
to do it the right way.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 8:00 PM Patrick D. Kelly <
pkelly.licensetokill at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Goats...seems like a lot of trouble and $ for minimal results. Goats and
> grazing, like any IPM mechanical control has it's purposes and place
> depending on the circumstance but they are hardly the over-hyped silver
> bullet the mainstream focuses and fixates. At worst, goats are sometimes
> entrepreneur-driven virtue-signaling at the expense of more productive
> methods. In an ideal world ALL invasive control projects have input from a
> variety of expertise sources to develop an integrated plan. Unfortunately,
> this seldom occurs and results of contracted human
> Specialist/volunteer/financial resources can be marginal at best.
>
> Patrick D. Kelly, Horticulturist
>
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> On Thursday, September 16, 2021, 07:03:43 PM EDT, Marc Imlay <
> ialm at erols.com> wrote:
>
>
> It is not likely to work well but it is worth the try since stilt grass is
> so bad.  If they do eat the stilt grass we can come back for 3 years and
> see if the seed bank has been reduced from 5 to 4 years. Marc
>
>
>
> *From:* Hamersky Business <william at skyhammer.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:10 PM
> *To:* Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com>
> *Cc:* William Hamersky <william at skyhammer.com>; maipc at lists.maipc.org;
> INVASIVES at LISTSERV.UMD.EDU; Vanessa Beauchamp <VBeauchamp at towson.edu>;
> Tancos, Matthew - ARS <matthew.tancos at usda.gov>
> *Subject:* J stiltgrass seeds passing thru goats guts??
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just got a request from a colleague who is going to have goats take care
> of their J stiltgrass next week, here in the Charlottesville area.
>
>
>
>  I have 2 questions:
>
> 1.   do goats actually eat stiltgrass?!
>
>
>
> 2. will the seeds pass through the goats' GI tract intact
> (pre-fertilized!) and ready for next year?
>
>
>
> Thank you all!
>
>
>
> Stay safe.
>
>
>
> William Hamersky
> Skyhammer
> 470 Taylors Gap Rd
> Charlottesville, VA  22903
>
> cel:  415. 516. 2560
>
> william at skyhammer.com
>
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