TXmom
Sprout
We have a very bad Poison Ivy infestation that we're trying to figure out how to get rid of it. There's a LOT of it and if we actually tried to pull it up, it would be a huge project. We've tried spraying it with weed killer stuff...it did kill some of it, but again, there's so much PI that we'd need a lot of that, and I hate using chemicals anyways.
My cat and dogs occasionally run through it and are unharmed (sometimes we actually get rashes from petting them...grrrr). I've heard that goats eat poison ivy and it doesn't bother them. I'm seriously considering getting goats! We live in the country, so that actually is a good possibility. Are there other animals that eat it? What would happen if we let chickens in that area? Would they eat it, or would it affect them in any way?
My cat and dogs occasionally run through it and are unharmed (sometimes we actually get rashes from petting them...grrrr). I've heard that goats eat poison ivy and it doesn't bother them. I'm seriously considering getting goats! We live in the country, so that actually is a good possibility. Are there other animals that eat it? What would happen if we let chickens in that area? Would they eat it, or would it affect them in any way?