> Does anyone have experience with goats, that can tell me if they will
> browse on black locust (or other poisonous plants) when there is plenty of
> other non-toxic plants to eat?
I don't think goats would have the supernatural powers to know, or would
intuitively know which plants might be poisonous. That's giving them a
little too much credit.
They would just eat what's handy and tasted OK.
But I doubt that we would have much success poisoning goats by turning them
loose in the woods. There would probably be a higher fatality rate from
Black Locust branches falling on the goats, than from browsing on the leaves.
Some people apparently feed large quantities of Black Locust leaves to goats:
INTAKE, DIGESTIBILITY, AND NITROGEN UTILIZATION OF BLACK LOCUST FOLIAGE FED TO
GROWING GOAT WETHERS
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_11
5=157406
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