Clean Up Questions

[sweetshoplady]

OK, what is the best way to pick up after your goats? The rakes I use for the horses aren't very effective.

Also, my goats like to lay under the pine trees and get pine sap on them. Then dirt gets on the drops of pine sap. How do I get the pine sap off? They are starting to look like spotted goats.

 

[PoultryPedia]

Large flat-edge shovel? Small garden trowel? Kitty litter scoop? Yard rake with flexible tines? Old broom? Hand broom & dustpan?
Goat droppings drive me crazy on my gravel path to the chicken coop. I generally just use my boot to shove aside

 

[helmstead]

Generally speaking, our goat yard (bare dirt) has enough hay mixed in that the hay acts as a base, so when I use my horse manure fork to rake and scoop, I get the majority of the berries. I say, good enough. If you really wanted to get them gone, you'd have to wait for a dry day, broom them and scoop with a flat shovel.

 

[sweetshoplady]

Thanks, I want to use them for fertilizer in other places, like in my garden, or to try to get a compost pile going.

Anybody with ideas on how to get sap off an animal?

 

[Skyesrocket]

I would like to know about getting sap off too. We had a bunch of pine branches come down during an ice storm this spring. The goats loved them, but were full of the sap. Lucky for me, mine shed most of it out.

 

[helmstead]

Rubbing alcohol.

 

[Skyesrocket]

Thanks!