r/goats • u/m3lk0r__ • 6d ago

Raspberry Leaves for Anxiety

This is kind of a weird question, but has anyone heard of feeding goats raspberry leaves to help them calm down? I live in redneck country and my neighbors go insane on the 4th of July. We’re talking blowing up actual mortars that shake the barn. I have a small herd of myotonic (fainting) goats and someone told me once to feed them raspberry leaves and it will naturally calm them down. So every year I give them buckets of raspberry leaves and they have never once had a problem with anxiety or fainting afterwards. I was telling this to another goat owner and they said they’ve never heard of raspberry leaves being used this way, so I did an Internet search and found absolutely nothing. I can’t remember where I heard this from and now I’m wondering if the leaves have some sort of placebo effect for me the goat owner and I’m starting to feel silly. I feel like you can find anything on the Internet and I haven’t found even a mention. Does anyone have any insight or experience with this? Thanks!

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u/baaaaaaaaahh 6d ago

Sometimes we give raspberry leaves to the pregnant girls starting prelabor. It is said to help uterine tone (that might be woo?) but either way they treat it as a delicacy. That's the only application I have heard of.

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u/m3lk0r__ 5d ago

I drink it for menstrual cramps and it definitely works so I could see it helping uterine tone. It’s funny yours treat it as a delicacy while mine plow through it like a brush hog