EDIBLE
Please note, too much of anything can be bad, so ALL plants, even if in this Edible listing, should be fed only in moderation.
• Catnip
• Cedar Needles (leaves) & Bark
• Celery
• Citrus
• Clover
• Corn husks & silk
• Cottonwood
• Coyote Bush (Baccharis)
• Dandelion
• Douglas Fir
• DogwoodElm
• English Ivy (we feed lvy trimming all the time; they love it)
• Fava Bean pods
• Fern
• Fescue grass
• Ficus
• Garlic
• Ginger Root
• Grape, entire plants
• Grape Vine
• Grapefruit, fruit & peel
• Greenbrier
• Hay Plant
• Heavenly Bamboo
• Hemlock Trees (which are not the same as the poisonous hemlock, an herbaceous species of plant which is in the carrot family that bears the scientific name “Conium maculatum”)
• Hibiscus
• Honeysuckle, entire plant (goats love honeysuckle)
• Hyssop
• Ivy
• Jackfruit leaves
• Jade
• Jambolan leaves
• Japanese Elm
• Japanese Knotweed aka: polygonum cuspidatum aka: fallopia japonica.
• Japanese Magnolias (blooms/leaves)
• Johoba
• Kudzu
• Lilac bark /branches
• Lupine – appears on both lists: Seeds are the part of the plant that are the greatest problem.
• Magnolia Leaves green and dried
• Mango leaves
• Manzanita (Arctostaphylos)
• Maple Trees, leaves & bark – (goats will readily strip the bark and kill the tree)
NOT Red Maples (Red Maples can be toxic)
• Marijuana-in moderation
• Mesquite
• Mint
• Mock Orange
• Monkeyflower (Mimulus)
• Mountain Ash (excellent goat forage tree)
• Morning Glory
• Moss
• Mulberry (entire plant)
• Mullein
• Mustard
• Nettle
• Lemon Grass
• Oak Tree Leaves
• Okara- pulp left over after making Soymilk
• Onion
• Orange, fruit & peel
• Paloverde – needles & seed pods
• Patterson’s Curse
• Pea Pods
• Peanuts, including the shells
• Pear
• Pencil cactus
• Peppers
• Pepper plants
• Photinia
• Pine Trees (we had hundreds of small trees until our goats ate them all)
• Plum, all
• Pumpkin
• Poison Oak
• Poison Sumac, the vine
• Pomegranates
• Poplar Trees
• Potatoes
• Raisins
• Raspberry, entire plant (goats loves raspberry)
• Red-tips
• Rose, all, entire plant (goats loves roses)
• Salvation Jane
• Sassafras
• Southern Bayberry (myrica cerifera)
• Spruce trees
• Sumac, the tree
• Sunflowers
• St. John’s Wort (can cause sun sensitivity in light skinned goats)
• Strawberry
• Sweet Gum Trees
• Sweet potato leaves
• Tomatoes (cherry tomatoes make wonderful treats)
• Tomato plants- in moderation (mine eat them with no problems)
• Tree of Heaven
• Turnips
• Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria)
• Yarrow
• Yellow Locus
• Yucca
• Vetch
• Virginia Creeper
• Wandering Jew
• Watermelon
• Wax Myrtle (myrica cerifera)
• Weeping Willow-great as a natural wormer and natural pain killer
• Wild Rose, entire plant (goats loves roses)
• Wild Tobacco
POISONOUS
• African Rue
• Andromeda (related to foxglove)
• Avocado- South American Avocado leaves/tree such as Haas or crosses with Haas
• Avocado- Fuarte (definitely)
• Azalea
• Brouwer’s Beauty Andromeda
• Boxwood
• Burning Bush berries
• Calotropis
• Cassava (manioc)
• China Berry Trees, all parts
• Choke Cherries, wilting especially
• Choke Cherry Leaves in abundance
• Datura
• Dog Hobble
• Dumb Cane (diffenbachia) (Houseplant)
• Euonymus Bush berries
• False Tansy Foxglove
• “Fiddleneck”- know by this common name in CA. It is a fuzzy looking, 12″ to 15″ plant, with small yellow blossoms, shaped on a stem shaped like the neck of a fiddle.
• Flixweed
• Fusha
• Holly Trees/Bushes
• Ilysanthes floribunda
• Japanese pieris (extremely toxic)
• Japanese Yew
• Lantana
• Larkspur- a ferny, flowering plant in shades of blue, pink and white.
• Lasiandra
• Lilacs
• Lily of the Valley (Pieris Japonica)
• Lupine – appears on both lists: Seeds are the part of the plant that are the greatest problem.
• Madreselva (Spain) patologia renal
• Maya-Maya
• Monkhood
• Milkweed
• Mountain Laurel
• Nightshade
• Oleander
• Pieris Japonica (extreamly toxic) ‘Privet
• Red Maples
• Rhododendron
• Rhubarb leaves
• Tu Tu (the Maori name for Coriaria arborea)
• Wild Cherry, -wilted- leaves (fresh and fully dried are not poisonous)
• Yew