Dr. Olcott: That’s correct.

Tammy: Okay. What kind of feed would that be?

Dr. Olcott: The healthiest diet for a goat and this is how my goats have been grown for most of their lives, the healthiest diet for a goat is being out on open pasture and being allowed to eat green fresh grass and weeds and shrubs and bushes and that kind of stuff, so we’re getting exercise and we’re getting good nutrition at the same time.

Tammy: Now are there a lot of outdoor plants that are allergic to…I mean not allergic to but that are detrimental, poisonous, or can make them sick?

Dr. Olcott: There’s a long…And poisonous plants are kind of one of my pet interests and there’s a huge long list. In fact, there’s some web sites that have wonderful documentation about huge long lists of poisonous plants. For the most part, goats real quickly sort out what’s good and what’s bad. Most of that is based on taste probably because most poisonous plants will have kind of bad taste to them. The young goats, if they’re grazing with their mother, they seem to pick that up real quickly from their mother. So for the most part, even though I can go out and show you in any pasture ten poisonous plants, what’s the problem? The goats don’t worry. Yeah they may eat a little bit of it but not enough to make them sick. There’s one exception to that list and that’s one that you need to put some stars around and that’s Azaleas and I don’t know what it is about Azaleas but it just draws goats like a magnet to them and I’ve seen them go out and get sick almost to death on Azaleas, we get them treated and straightened out, and as soon as they feel healthy enough again, they get straight back to that Azalea plant to try to commit suicide again. Previous Page (7)