Why Use Goats?

Site driven

- Agile Goats can easily handle:

·         Steep slopes

·         Rocky or uneven terrain

- Soft soils – light animal low impact

- Goats not deterred by dense thickets of thorns (blackberries, Russian olive)

- Goats like eating plants that irritate humans: Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, English Ivy

- Goats love to eat brush and weeds more than grass

Alternative Tool

Goats can:

- Be less costly than other tools in the right situations

- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides

- Prevent seed production – plants may go to seed below the cutting level of a mower, can’t evade an agile goat

- Be selective depending on timing of grazing and how well the goats like the their choices

- Reduce risk to hand crews and machinery by opening up site making it easier avoid dangers

Goats are Fun

- Relaxing to watch – proven employee morale booster

- Entertaining – young goats love to play king of the mountain

- Good publicity and public relations

- Green choice – less fuel use, noise, soil disturbance

- Peaceful to listen to – satisfied eating noises and mothers talking with their kids