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Anysize...it just takes longer for them to root it out of course. My suggestion is to dump salt on the stump and they will burro and burro to get all the salt out.
Eat lamb...because 50,000 coyotes CAN'T be wrong!
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| the pig idea interests me ive been hoping to get goats to do some clearing and have been concerned about the stump situation because i had planned to use a chainsaw on the bigger stuff i was gonna ask what type of fence to plan on for pigs i worked on a large hog farm for a couple years most of the pigs were on concrete and/or in barns except one lot that was used for quarentine that was outside on the ground all we had was a 4 foot tall mesh fence with a hot wire about a foot up and one at the top of the fence. i dont remember ever having trouble keeping them in that way. i like the salt idea ive also heard of driving a pipe in the ground to make holes around the stump and filling them with cracked corn just wandering drawbar what advantage do you think there would be in running sheep before the goats
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| this is a great idea! We have lots of wooded areas that we'd like to have cleared. We purchased part of our land from a logging company and they left a huge mess - lots of stumps and brush. Is there any specific kind of pig that works best? I have given thought to the Large Black Hog idea, but they are really expensive in our area. I'm curious about the fencing as well... thanks!
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ihenigman2, sheep tend to LOVE the leaves of trees and saplings, and will eat a small amount of browse...that is the stemmy parts of the trees, but they won't eat that much of it. Goats do a far better job and take out bigger pieces too. So you put the sheep in there to help clean up the leaves and twigs first. The goats, they will eat all of it, but they will continue to browse long after the sheep have lost interest. The sheep will gobble up the weeds far better then the goats ever would however.
In some respects you could forgo either the sheep or the goats, but using them together you would get even better clean up of the cleared area.
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| ive been dreaming of getting goats for more than a year now i went to a local livestock auction today just to see the goats but ill have to say the sheep caught my interest a great deal ill have to study up on them maybe i will have both someday thanks
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| I really like the way that you talked about clearing ypur land. I have put up a electric fence around an area and getting ready to put my dairy goats in to clean up the sapplings and other things.I have been thinking of getting some pigs because of all the acrons that we have this year and they would also rout out the stumps. Thank you for the information and keep up the good work of inform all of us small hobby farmers.garry
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