Thank you all for the comments and suggestions. Not in the original post but in a further down comment I said that we are having the soil tested and plan on spreading lime or whatever is recommended and overseeding in fall.
Based on the great information provided by Leather we’re going to go with Crossbow. I can actually get the quart from Amazon which is perfect.
I know it will kill the clover, we are only going to spray the half of the field that had the buttercups and leave the other half.
We have one mini and 6 dwarf goats. During spring summer and fall the available forage is way more than enough and we have to keep up mowing. Winter it does get eaten down. We do rotational mow, basically we mow one half of the field at a time, letting the other half grow a bit taller. This works for us because the goats will always pick the longer height, the mini prefers shorter. We won’t be fully splitting the field, the mini loves to do giant loops trotting or galloping around, we have playground equipment in the center of the field for the goats and we just don’t want to have to deal with any more gates or fencelines. The mini is only on the field about 8 hours a day in a grazing muzzle (only during the dead of winter does she get to go out without the muzzle). The goats are the same and put themselves to bed at night and don’t graze even though they do have access.
We don’t have any bad manure dumps or areas where it’s just piled up manure that would kill the grass. The mini does prefer to poop in a few locations around the field. I drag the field with a heavy duty harrow at least twice a month. I drag when it’s wet so the poop breaks up the most so it’s never sitting in one spot.
