â¢ Mow your lawn so that the grass sits above the soil line. Ideally, it should stand at an inch to an inch and a half. This will allow your grass seed to get adequate sunlight and connect with the soil. â¢ Next, use a thatch rake or power rake to remove any thatch that you find, a process called dethatching.
1 Ornamental fescue varieties for lawns often contain endophytes which can cause health problems, including fatal toxicity, in livestock. Always use fescue varieties intended for livestock.  Goats should not be grazed extensively on pure stands of clover, due to the risk of bloating from the richness of the forage.
Goats need the minerals that tree bark contains, and it's possible that if they are really starved for variety in their diet or for minerals, they might eat the bark anyway, especially after the tea wears off a little. We like to cut willow and alder saplings and branches and feed them almost every day to the goats. did read once that you can mix a mixture of goat berries, smash them down, add a bit of water and then paint the tree with it to deter them from eating the bark. Haven't tried it myself. -- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), February 19, 2001.