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Have a few questions?
Does my property need goats?
If you own land with excess brush, invasive or nuisance plants, goats might be the best answer! Goats are able to access places that equipment cannot. Goats naturally love to climb, play and feed on steep hills and embankments. These are often difficult places for people and machinery to reach. Let our goats do your hard work!
Why Goats?
The real question is…why not?! Goats are natural brush eaters. That’s what they do. They are the perfect tool for areas you wish to preserve but also clean up. They don’t leave toxic chemicals or tire ruts behind and they are quiet as can be on the job. Just all-natural brush management.
What will the goats eat?
Goats will eat most typical Kansas weeds and brush-like plants. Many highly invasive plants like Sericea lespedeza, bush honeysuckle and Bradford Pear are all-time favorites of the goats. They also eat multi-flora rose, buck brush, poison ivy, blackberry bushes, and most young tree saplings. They typically eat the plant void of all its leaves, girdle bark from tree saplings, and leave nothing but naked stems.
What’s the cost?
Pricing varies greatly depending on the job. Factors such as distance from Restoration Grazing, LLC headquarters, number of acres, density of the brush, and difficulty of the fence set up all contribute to a higher or lower price. Cost can be mitigated by signing up for multiple grazings.
The entertainment factor!
In addition to goats being amazingly efficient at clearing brush they are also tremendously entertaining to watch as they do it! As they browse, the herd dynamics and individual personalities are sure to grab your attention. You’ll get to see playful head-butting, funny goat acrobatics, and sweet behavior from these remarkable creatures as they work to rid your property of brush.
How long will a project take?
A rule of thumb is that 200 goats will clear approximately one acre of average Kansas brush in one day. When we perform small projects we bring enough goats to complete the graze in a day. This is good for the customer because lots of goats in a small area creates a heightened sense of competition —they will eat a higher variety of brush and more of it. This is good for the goats because it keeps their plane of nutrition higher — a grazing animal’s instinct is to eat the highest quality feed available in its paddock at any given time; the longer an animal is in a paddock, the lower the quality of feed is since they eat the best first. By bringing the animals in and out quickly, we make sure they are always on high quality feed.