Benefits of Using Goats
The main benefit of hiring our goats is Weed Control, Reduced Fire Hazard, Maintaining Landscapes and clearing sites for construction. Weeds and brush can quickly take over when it is not controlled or rid of. Human management is time-consuming, expensive and typically include chemicals. If you are concerned about pesticides, herbicides and other chemical effects on your land, in the environment, and on our planet, then this natural alternative is the answer.
Hiring our goats benefits both you, and our goats.
- They naturally clear weeds by eating them
- They break up the soil and aerate the ground
- They fertilize the ground
- They grind up the seeds and destroy them with digestive enzymes to cut down on new seed broadcasting by 90%
- Reduces stress on the home and business owner
Goats are herbivores and do not consume meat. They LOVE the variety of vegetation, and yes weeds, including damaging, invasive and noxious weeds:
- Buckthorn
- Parsnip
- Cucumber
- Poison Sumac
- Artichoke Thistle
- Black Berry’s
- Bull Thistle
- Canada Thistle
- Cheat Grass
- Common Mullein
- Common Tansy
- Dalmatian Toad flax
- Dandelions
- Downy Brome
- Horsetail
- Indian tobacco
- Ivy
- Knap Weed
- Kosia Weed
- Larkspur
- Leafy Spurge
- Loco Weed
- Medusa Head
- Morning Glory
- Musk Thistle
- Nettle
- Oxide Daisy
- Plumless Thistle
- Poison Oak
- Poison Hemlock
- Puncture Vine (goat heads)
- Purple Lostrife
- Purple Star Thistle
- Rush Skeleton Weed
- Russian Olives
- Sage
- Scotch Broom
- Scotch Thistle
- Snap Weed
- Spotted Knapweed
- Sweet Clover
- Yellow Star thistle
- Yucca
- Wild Parsnip
- Wild Roses
Instead of introducing man-made solutions to man-made problems, we are giving mother nature some control back and letting agriculture, specifically livestock solve the environmental emergency of invasive plants on its own. We as humans just target the control area with our fencing.