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Posted by living_simple Tasmania (My Page) on Sun, Oct 30, 05 at 19:17
Hi all,
i was wondering if anyone could tell me of any animals which eat ALOT of grass, weeds, etc, but don't absolutely ruin fruit trees? My husband has been talking about Geese, but we don't know anything about them - any ideas? We were also thinking about pigs, but i think they would push the fruit trees over when they want to scratch themselves!! Help!
Cheers
Lyn |
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RE: Grass Eaters??
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| chickens will eqat grass and weeds - but scratch a lot geese are good - for an orchard set up or if you want to fence off a 100 square metres or so - a dozen guinea pigs will keep that pretty much under control - and you can always sell off the hundreds of offspring each year
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| Should I dare suggest goats? You did want to keep the trees though didn't you :) Actually I would go for geese. We inherited some geese at a place a few years ago and they kept the grass down in the paddock well. The only problem was that we didn't really know the geese so could never trust them. It would be best if you bought them young and raised them yourself and they would act as guard dogs/geese as well. |
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- Posted by meggs WA Aust (My Page) on
Mon, Oct 31, 05 at 2:06
| Josh from GA has put chicken wire under his fruit trees to protect the roots and has chickens under his. |
RE: Grass Eaters??
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| Geese or chickens would both work. My choice would be geese as they're more fox proof. They will need some swimming water or paddling water though. I've been told that you can win over geese quite easily by feeding them grain regularly. Make them come to you for it. And roast goose - yummmmmmmmm! |
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Geese are not dependent on water. They will do well without water other than for drinking.
Ducks keep the grass down well also but need water. They have liquid droppings that are a lot less conspicuous than chooks or geese. Manuel |
RE: Grass Eaters??
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| Thanks everyone! o.k then, here comes the next question - can ducks, geese and chooks live happily together?? We might get a few of each and see which ones work the best for our situation! Cheers
Lyn |
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We had chooks and ducks as a kid. I don't remember there being any problems except that the drake decided the chooks were also ducks!!!
I don't imagine adding geese would cause a problem. |
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We had all three together when I was a Kid. No probs at all.
They do sometimes have identity and gender issues, but it tends to work out. |
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