I agree Shelly, I had a similar problem with native bulbs We have some cows too but they are banished to the big paddocks & 3 gates protect my lily patch from those fatties....... We have about 2.5km of adjoining rainforest's & jungle clad vine forest boundary, too steep to fence, along the edge of our property & i have battled mum for years to keep them away from the rainforest fringes, more for trampling the edges more than anything, because proiphys cunninghamii grow throughout the rainforest fringes, usually the cows don't go to the edges of the rain forest, but during that same drought they were forced with in the edges & i nearly had a heart attack, they ate every proiphys, although i was more worried about crushing bulbs, thankfully seasons got better & the lilies returned with avengeance. Surprisingly my goats never enter any of sections my rain forest areas on my property, or adjoining, i find this fascinating, they actually get very nervous & scared if stuck even in the edges, but they dont like the dark & if they have to traverse any section of the rainforests, they will run as fast as they can in single file & always use the same track with no deviations what so ever, its actually pretty funny to watch. But goats have extremely long memories & perhaps they have encountered a family of Dingos before & they never forget. They usually stay high on the mountain sides where they belong thank goodness. A snippet about goat memories, i once red a story about goats that had been separated & sold to another property for more than 10 years. They were eventually were given back to the original farm & when they arrived they when straight through the herd & found their family group & snuggled up beside them & continued to be inseparable after that. Amassing ! As for Mango trees, we don't have any but during that drought i was given trailer loads of them & casuarina, the cows ate them, the goats stole them off the cows, the lamas spat them out & the horses ran around like mad things trying to find all the scraps. A race horse friend believes mangoes are her secret to so many wins over the years Steven Esk Queensland Australia On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Shelley Gage <s.gage100@hotmail.com>wrote: It is silly to maintain that animals won't eat certain plants. During the drought we suffered in Queensland