CULT: Do goats eat irises?

In a message dated 5/8/2006 9:01:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
ross@tomanderson.com writes:

<<If it's green they will try it.......but.......they are  relatives of deer
and caprines,  sooooo..there may be  hope...LOL>>


There is the trample factor, though. 
 
It has been mentioned here in past that whereas deer do not generally  fancy 
irises, they will eat most anything if they are hungry enough, and they  will 
walk all over the plants, trampling rhizomes, getting to the  other stuff they 
prefer to eat. Goats are smaller so perhaps this is less  of a problem? But 
aren't they inclined to get into mischief just for the  sport of it? 
Independent thinkers to the point of anarchy? Do they work  together on projects like 
pigs do, tearing down a fence or  something?
 
<<I used to have a grade "B" goat dairy (in another lifetime)  and....I do 
know
goats....and.......I don't have them  anymore!!


Kewl! On a ride in the country a couple of months ago I saw some very  fine 
long-haired ones and have not been able to discover what they were so I  can 
read more. The hair hung down like a yak, nearly to the ground, and  one of them 
was dramatically striped black and white like Lily Munster. It was  a small 
herd, with sort of a boutique look, as if perhaps the owner was  into spinning 
and weaving? Does anyone use goat hair, other than angora, for  textiles? I 
know some ethnic rugs are goat and I thought it was sort of wiry.  In angoras is 
it the undercoat or something that is used? Maybe that is  undergoat... 
_ChatOWhitehall@aol.com_ (C*@aol.com) 
 
I realize I could have pulled up to the house and asked about the  animals 
but this was in a part of the world that if  you enter a property unbidden you 
want to be careful to  drive slow enough not to raise dust since dust clouds 
tend to  attract buckshot.   
 
Thank you.
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA 

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