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from Derek Turner contains these words:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:09:33 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Healthy goats and sheep will eat it voluntarily, given a chance, in my
experience. And they've stayed healthy ...

I thought mares eat oats and goats eat oats and _little lambs_ eat
ivy!

A kid'll eat ivy too.

Kids are baby goats, but I bet you knew that. The first line is "Mares
eat oats and does eat oats", btw.

:-)

Janet