Browsing Green Goats

Browsing Green Goats love eating unwanted vegetation – that is their natural food, and we enjoy being able to provide that to them. You never have to worry about harming the soil with herbicides when you hire our goats, and, best of all, the goats leave an all-natural fertilizer free of charge behind for you which as a bonus will trample into the ground for you. Goats are designed to eat about 1/3 of the day, lay down and chew their cud 1/3 of the day, and sleep 1/3 of the day. The goats typically eat 20% of their body weight a day. That is why no two jobs are the same as far as how many goats and for how long they are at your residence.

Green Goat Grazing Facts: Goats love broad leafed material, which means brush and invading field vegetation are consumed. But they don’t prefer grass, so it is left to flourish. Goats are agile and light on their feet, so they can be gentler than machinery when working on historical sites and other areas that need special consideration. Herbicides seep into water and soil, affecting other vegetation, animals and humans. They also can encourage mutations among vegetation, creating greater and greater problems instead of solving them. Grazing goats are very effective at eating the kinds of excessive weeds and brush that pose a risk of unwanted fires.

Goats have a narrow, triangular mouth that allows them to crush what they eat, so seeds that might otherwise get passed through to fertilization are not viable. This is a true advantage, since machine cutting only encourages further growth in the next growth cycle. Goats fertilize as they graze, then trample the fertilizer, so that the wanted grasses and other vegetation left behind are given a natural boost! Goats have special enzymes in their guts that allow them to eat plants that are poisonous to other animals. Goats can climb, allowing them to reach invasive vegetation that grow in hard to reach places. And, since they eat vines and stems, they can graze at a lower level of a tree covered invasives and as a result, either kill the vines systems that reach higher into the trees or reveal them so that they can be cut. Using goats instead of herbicides saves the bees, mammals and birds.