Goat groundskeeping
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Goat groundskeeping is the use of goats to eat vegetation as a form of landscape maintenance or conservation grazing. As goats are herd animals, several goats are usually used together and so companies such as California Grazing, Eco-Goats and Rent A Goat exist to rent such herds out, as needed.[1] This may be expensive and their smell may be a nuisance.[2]
Landscape maintenance
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Targeted grazing
Chattannooga, TN and Spartanburg, SC have used goats to control kudzu, an invasive plant species prevalent in the southeastern United States.[3]
References
- ^ Virginia C. McGuire (17 September 2013), How to Get a Goat to Weed Your Garden
- ^ Oregon scraps goat landscaping scheme due to cost and smell, 27 February 2016
- ^ Theo Emery (5 June 2007), In Tennessee, Goats Eat 'The Vine That Ate the South'