Amazing Goats Fix Degraded Farm Land

Watch in awe as these amazing goats tackle a major weed infestation on a farm waterway with careful management. Witness the incredible power of goats at work!

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[jaydenvoorzaat]

Used boer goats to control blackberries on difficult to manage land at our place in the past. Massive success for us too!

[I_must_get_a_van]

Hi Tim, all your videos are always very informative and you teach us heaps. This video must be a game changer to all country folk that struggle with weeds and especially Blackberries. Thank you Tim and thanks to the goats. Cheers steve

[phillipsmith]

We turned Katahadin sheep into old fields covered in blackberries and they had everything down like it was bushhogged in about a month. Livestock are great workers when used properly.

[dnawormcastings]

Goats are great for blackberries I used to hire my goats to small farms to keep weeds under control ❤️

[DPM]

Good onya Tim. We're using goats to help control blackberry on a very steep block in NE queensland. People around us spend hundreds of thousands on sprays and they keep coming back anyway. We're experimenting with physical removal of root balls as our problem is not as intense as the site in this video. Excellent work in using your voice to spread this message. Goats are excellent weed control when well managed!!!

Any idea what panels they were using as fencing?

[threeriversforge]

Love seeing goats at work. Wish we had some around here to help with all the invasive! My question is why you used that horribly expensive and heavy fencing instead of Polywire electric fence with plastic step-in posts and a solar charger? Way easier to install and transport, never mind less costly. I've never seen folks using that kind of panel fencing to hold goats back. Gives me a few ideas, though....

[tonycortese]

Little mobile factories, fixing the problem one end and providing fertiliser from the other end. In saying that I'm guessing you would try and have the goats in before fruiting so they are not spreading seed in their pooh or do their stomachs destroy the seeds. Cheers man, I always learn something from your videos. Double thumbs up

[braddeicide]

Spraying also works betting when the plant is actively growing, which would have been triggered by the goats eating it back.

[tanyiabailey]

my biggest problem is lantana do you have any advice on removal on a fairly slopped site, have been considering goats but worried that lantana will kill them. love the videos

[andrewsteele]

Good morning, Tim, excellent story, we were considering using goats here until we met a lovely family at Farmfest who were there with the goats. The Big buck at the entrance to their display was at his finest for mating and the smell was horrendous. There was nothing I could do to convince my partner that we wouldn't smell him once home. Anyway, we are now looking at Camels. Cheers