Goats (and Sheep?) to the Rescue!

I always love hearing these stories about how goats are used to help trim back or eliminate invasive plant species in undesirable areas. From Key West, Florida to the highways of Maryland, and other hard-to-reach places on government properties and wetlands, goats are "eating away" at the problem. Read more.

Goats are renowned for their ability to eat away at much of "the brush" that former President Bush used to spend countless hours "clearing" on his ranch. All he really needed was a couple dozen goats with hungry stomachs turned loose on the property and he would have never had to spend another weekend trading cleared land for poison oak or poison ivy.

The only issue I tend to have with this story is the fact that sheep aren't usually the ones eating away at these invasive plants. Far from it, in fact. Most sheep breeds find these invasive plants poisonous to them, so the goats tend to be the invasive-eaters while the sheep are there to graze on the grasses and keep the goats company.

Read more on the article and decide for yourself.