Feeding Christmas trees to goats

We stumbled across an on-line article recently about someone who feeds Christmas trees to their goats. We had previously had doubts about this as we thought they could be toxic. Given the article suggested this was incorrect, we decided to experiment by giving the goats a Christmas tree that someone had left outside our gate. At first, the goats seemed enthusiastic. And then they gave up though they did enjoy the bark.

The tree will instead be chopped up for firewood with the branches covered in needles dried for kindling.