Thursday, August 04, 2005
I'm just telling you this to get your goat...
Rent a goat to eat poison ivy
Littleton Independent
By Tiny Xue/ Correspondent
Thursday, August 4, 2005
Some people, because they have children, pets or just personal preference, don't like using chemical pesticides to kill off the annoying clumps of poison ivy that crop up each year.
So, what are the alternatives? Buy a goat. Or better yet, rent one. If you are one of those people who are allergic to it and need to rid your property of the poisonous plant, then a goat could be your answer.
Goats, said Carrie Chickering-Sears, the director of community education in Animal Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Science and Veterinary Department, love to eat vines and poison ivy, which are deliquesces to them. According to Chickering-Sears, 90 percent of the time a goat will eat poison ivy "and think it's [like] candy." ¶ 12:35 PM
Littleton Independent
By Tiny Xue/ Correspondent
Thursday, August 4, 2005
Some people, because they have children, pets or just personal preference, don't like using chemical pesticides to kill off the annoying clumps of poison ivy that crop up each year.
So, what are the alternatives? Buy a goat. Or better yet, rent one. If you are one of those people who are allergic to it and need to rid your property of the poisonous plant, then a goat could be your answer.
Goats, said Carrie Chickering-Sears, the director of community education in Animal Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Science and Veterinary Department, love to eat vines and poison ivy, which are deliquesces to them. According to Chickering-Sears, 90 percent of the time a goat will eat poison ivy "and think it's [like] candy." ¶ 12:35 PM
