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I had an autistic lad that spent months working in my bush making it “park-like”. It helped his state of mind. He hated buck-thorn and cut-off thousands….and in five years we had tens of thousands. Each stump sprouted 10. Some places where he cleared are almost not passable now,,ten years later. Later, I gave him a spritzer bottle of “round-up” and he sprayed the stumps immediately after cutting and it controlled the suckering and appeared to kill the root. I would never let goats into my bush….they are hard on everything. If you want the buck-thorn gone and nothing else injured I would recommend you inject the larger stems with Round-up with pole that shoves a cap of round up (“vision”) into the stem. I can’t remember the name of the unit. (We used them for thinning jack pine.) Or a hypo-hatchet. It kills the stem and root for good. No suckering or regrowth. I don’t know if you can eradicate it. You would still have the dead stem left. You would want to get some other more desirable species of tree flourishing in the openings….oh but that another thread……

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When my neighbour moved in, in the seventies, he planted weeping willow all around his pond. Well, now it is always low….always 6 feet down from the level it had been for 50 years. On dry years it is just mud. The willows are quite mature now and it is my belief they are consuming a lot of his water. He asked me my thoughts on his mud hole and I told him to thin out all but a few willow on the south side for shade. I’m always a bit nervous well someone follows my advise but we will see what happens. Those trees do shed a lot of branches and spread if not contained. Over the years his pond got pretty overgrown,some willows are worse than other. I personally would never plant weeping one. Just my thoughts………

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Thanks so much, we will keep on trying…….that’s all an old steer can do…..we’ll keep you posted. I appreciate the links…Mike

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Use what ya got I guess………..

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I have beef cattle and I would never let my team eat the hay that I am some years forced to give my cattle. Moldy, dusty hay doesn’t seem to make much difference to my hereford cows. It never stopped raining here this year and good dust free hay is a scarce commodity. I saved 64 round bales of top quality hay for the “workers”. I didn’t much worry about the aged old pony and she and the cows seem to just ignore each other but she is sometimes a wee bit pushie.

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