Well, I made a startling discovery about my horses and when I run out
of fresh green pasture grass. My horses love eating leaves of elm,
mulberry, ash and other trees. So I prune along the fence rows the
trees branches and give them those to feed on for the day.
This takes added time, and more time to clean up the denuded limbs on
the ground, but it is well worth it for I have to clean up the brush
anyway.
And what is worse is the old practice of cleaning up brush and setting
fire with air pollution.
My way, the horses get good food, and I get more firewood in the end.
Now I wonder if they teach this at agriculture schools, that livestock
love leaves of trees and to use our brush to a good goal rather than
cut it down and burn and pollute the air.
I remember someone in Austria or Germany about 5 or 10 years ago
posting to my comments saying that he fed his cattle or horses with
brush in the evening as a "snack".
Well the horses love the tree leaves so much that they rather eat the
leaves than find grass. But the favorite of horses is apples and
oatmeal cookies.
Archimedes Plutonium
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