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[Stumpfarmer]

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What a cutie! I need to stop looking because I want goats for blackberry control, and DH says NO GOATS!!!!

So much going on, we had three doe kids born her on the 17 they are so cute.

I love both of your breeds- I used to help show Nubians for years and years, and the place I stayed on Saltspring Island one summer was next door to a Toggenberg dairy herd- three brothers, nephews of my boyfriend's grandfather, owned it and milked about... 90 does, something like that. More goats than I'd ever seen in one place, and they had to be kept inside a 12 ft. unclimbable fence, which was, itself, inside a triple-strand hotwire, because there are cougars on the island.

But you have to admit, a goat's idea of a joke can complicate your day.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Just reporting in about my Sandhill order for Sweet potato slips. My order finally arrived. I ordered two varieties of slips and only received one. A note was jotted on the outside of the shipping box "credit to follow". Nothing in the box but the one package of slips. No shipping order, receipt or even a note telling me which of the two varieties I received. Really mad. Ordered a long time ago. They really need to stop over selling and making excuses. Hoping 'credit' means refund. No more Sandhill for me.

 

[VelvettFog]

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Sorry. I think I started it and I didn't get spanked.

Bee careful what ya wish for !!!!!

 

[VelvettFog]

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Excruciatingly true.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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OK, have to admit, I lied. There is a tag on the inside of the wrapper. Still, I wanted my whole order!

 

[VelvettFog]

Sandhill -- are these special slips or something? Cuz .. I don't know about you ladies.. but I dont think I'd be much interested in wearing a slip made out of sweet potatoes, but hey, to each their own.

Dave

 

[chickens4gramma]

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What a cutie! I need to stop looking because I want goats for blackberry control, and DH says NO GOATS!!!!

The problem, of course, is that nothing else works: no other animal eats the darn stuff*, and cutting back and digging the burls is a yearly life-time job, because anywhere blackberries have grown for more than a year or two is full of viable seeds (they have this in common with Scotch Broom, BTW). Burning in February and digging the burls only has to be done about every three years, and is best for fruit production but is highly illegal; I've yet to find a non-organic control that works with less effort than burning, or half as well. Goats are da bomb for blackberry control, wethers are great pets, but there's two problems: they'll eat anything if you don't protect it by fences so tight you can't see in, they can climb like cats (and the pygmies are worst for that, followed by Cashmeres). Oh, and they have really unfortunate senses of humor. Wethers are great pets, but there's three problems...



* well, Jacob sheep, when there's no green grass. Which is not my current condition. I will have photos of my new lamb and the sheep tractor by this time tomorrow.

Oh man, so all those blackberry bushes I pulled out on Sunday (my dh asked if I got in a fight with a cat when he saw my arms) and dug up the roots, and they are just gonna come back? Grrrrr.

We used to have pygmies too, but they could climb out of every fence, even with a hot wire, and the doe got into our rhodies (poisonous) and cost a small fortune at the vet to save. The little boy had one horn that came back, and he would ram my leg with that sucker every day, trying to dump the bucket of llama grain I was carrying so he could eat it. They got rehomed when the girls left for college.....kind of the opposite of the rest of you. My nest was not yet empty though (still isn't and I can't wait!)

Susie

 

[Rainwolf]

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[hallerlake]

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The problem, of course, is that nothing else works: no other animal eats the darn stuff*, and cutting back and digging the burls is a yearly life-time job, because anywhere blackberries have grown for more than a year or two is full of viable seeds (they have this in common with Scotch Broom, BTW). Burning in February and digging the burls only has to be done about every three years, and is best for fruit production but is highly illegal; I've yet to find a non-organic control that works with less effort than burning, or half as well. Goats are da bomb for blackberry control, wethers are great pets, but there's two problems: they'll eat anything if you don't protect it by fences so tight you can't see in, they can climb like cats (and the pygmies are worst for that, followed by Cashmeres). Oh, and they have really unfortunate senses of humor. Wethers are great pets, but there's three problems...



* well, Jacob sheep, when there's no green grass. Which is not my current condition. I will have photos of my new lamb and the sheep tractor by this time tomorrow.

Oh man, so all those blackberry bushes I pulled out on Sunday (my dh asked if I got in a fight with a cat when he saw my arms) and dug up the roots, and they are just gonna come back? Grrrrr.

We used to have pygmies too, but they could climb out of every fence, even with a hot wire, and the doe got into our rhodies (poisonous) and cost a small fortune at the vet to save. The little boy had one horn that came back, and he would ram my leg with that sucker every day, trying to dump the bucket of llama grain I was carrying so he could eat it. They got rehomed when the girls left for college.....kind of the opposite of the rest of you. My nest was not yet empty though (still isn't and I can't wait!)

Susie

I had mine dug out almost four years ago. I'm still mowing them down in my field.

 

[DIYSeattle]

There is supposed to be a variety of sweet tater that will grow here inteh pacific northwest.

I am going to look at the varieties and see if I can find it, inless Sandhill has that one.

I heard some other issues with Sandhill not making notes or letting customers know of issues.