You would be surprised what just two goats can accomplish on five acres. I fenced off my cousins land once and ran two goats with my calves , the transformation was amazing. With the goats eating the brush it cuts down on pink eye in the cattle.
We bought 2 goats 27 years ago and used them to clear thick brush off of a rural piece of property we bought, they loved it. But as goats will do, the 2 mated, had a set of twins who in one night got out and ate my new young Peach, Apple, & Pear trees.
Thanks for sharing! If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, I feel like I'd quit my life and bring my family along to do what you're doing...maybe some day! Until then, the world is a better place with people like you in it, so keep up the good work!
I had to watch this....I remember complaining about having to mow the lawn.. I hate to mow the lawn...and a guy at work told me to get a goat..... I thought he was joking with me ….hey LOVE your dogs...those white one are gorgeous ...
That's a good point about fencing your livestock in with a den of coyotes. I hadn't thought of that. I'm planning on rotating goats through 43 acres to clear it and I've got lots of places on my property where coyotes could hide. I was focused on keeping the coyotes out, but I hadn't thought about accidently fencing them in.
Goats is good!!🐐 A very uniquely satisfying video to watch. Thanks for your time. We always had a Covey of goats on the property growing up. Nobody wanted to mow. LOL 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Goats are magnificent animal. Can be resource for Cheese, milk, meat (delicious) and nice pelts. Obviously great weed control, can live in virtually any environment and don’t require a lot of attention, relatively speaking. Natures perfect livestock. Not too mention they are comical as can be.
I don't like to offer data without providing the sources, but I'm going to break my rule because you almost touched on it, we're not talking about cancer, and I've got a good track record of scrutinizing my sources. As an added bonus I'll offer my neck on the chopping block as the weakest link in this chain of information if it's determined that blood sacrifices are necessary to curb the spread of disinformation (For this subject only). After providing the above clarification, and actually removing two that my lawyer told me to add, I've now forgotten where I was going with this.....Just kidding ..... Some medical professionals have determined that some humans have been known to receive therapeutic benefits from just sitting and watching goats. Now, my own opinion, without any sources is that I think you will have trouble getting you insurance plan to cover this.
We have very good LGDs and with barb wire fence they will usually keep the goats in the fence A few may get out but will return pretty quick and before dark
Great job to make us understand your point. I don't understand why people keep winning about the video. It's a straight forward video. Thanks for your time and efforts to make educational videos for us
Tried to do a goat rental in MO while I lived there yeah ...people felt I should pay them. Not realizing just how much work it takes to put fence up. I love goat power :) Oldtimer once said takes 200 goats to clear 1 acres in 1 day ;)
Technically what you imply isn't correct these days, only partly. Most farmers no longer use 2-4D herbicides which is probably what you reference. It's used more in consumer products but nowhere near full strength. I spray cattle pastures and hay fields with two main products, Graze-On and Remedy (they kill different species of brush) and the primary poison is burned out in a day or two and becomes totally inert in the plant as it decomposes. There is no residual poison left in the soil.
@ettekamba6969 There is no mass commercial infrastructure for goat meat here in America. It can be found at some Halal or middle eastern markets but its generally not something found easily except through farmers directly. I wouldn't buy goats for meat production, only for clearing brush in areas of my farm that are inaccessible to tractors, mowers and sprayers due to rocks or forest. I am a all angus producer with one of the largest herds in the state of Virginia, specifically of the Lucy breed. I have no interest to diversify into any other livestock.
Yessir. I had goats for a number of years and they were the tops at clearing land and keeping it clear. Yessir, their goobers were great fertilizers. I would grain them and they would spread the undigested grain seeds and wow, what lush growth.
Zac Mosier ohio actually has a goat program. There may be other states as well. The state contracts with the goat owners to clear certain areas. But you have to be careful to make sure a branch or tree doesnt come down on the fence so the goats would get out and get hit. Thats the only downside, besides predators like coyotes. As long as the fence is good,the goats are ok.
Back in the 90's there was some land that was clear cut and then put up for sale here in east Texas. It flooded sometimes in the fall and early spring on most of the land. No one was interested and then the sweetgum saplins took over and grew up head high or more. Finally a guy made an offer and bought the land for about $1100.00 an acre. It took him several months to string a hot wire around the land and then he bought goats and put on it. He had to cut a trail for his hot wires around the boundary. Within a few years his land was cleared and he had a beautiful place for almost nothing. It seems the goats not only ate the leaves on that sweetgum but also the bark which killed the saplins and then they even ate some of the branches and stems of those trees. He went in with a tractor and shredder and I could not believe the results. That land today is most likely worth 5 to six thousand an acre and it all started with an idea and some goats!
Wonderful! We just found you through Timeless fence! We recently bought goats, Kiko/Savanah cross from an Amish neighbor! Doing 6 wire perimeter fence, then ploy rope or 48" Premier One. Going to put them in #aluminumchickentractor from #naturalgramma to hold them and move daily until then. Would love to talk with you! Natural Gramma LLC RevHank and Laura Reid
I would like to know would goats be good to remove black berry brambles? My 10 acres is absolutely lousy with the plant. I plan on getting goats, but I'm trying to decide if I need to go through and try to rip out the black berries.
Now that the goats done their work get some pigs in there to finish it of. They will turn the soil and eat the roots of all the weeds. They're a bit harder to keep in, but a wire, or two, a foot of the ground should keep them in.
I am sorry, but I could not hear you too well. The sound is not loud enough. From what I can tell, I have a question. If you get hair sheep also, would they do better with the grass since they eat down rather than up like goats?
We will have to do a better job on the sound, sorry. The sheep so far have done a great job eating the clover and other forbs that the goats don’t care for. Our goats eat a fair amount of grass but go for the browse first.
we had six scruffy goats to milk. they grazed the weedy pasture. there was a huge influx of Tansy that became a noxious weed the length of the valley from trucked in feed hay. Our land stood in the middle of 60 acres of Tansy. We had tansy too the first year. the second year tansy was pretty sparse on our little acreage in the center of tansy going to seed on the the cattle pasture next door. the third year we never had a tansy make it past the bloom. Tansy county-wide was generally taken down by the tansy moth. You only find it in forgotten corners now.
We didn’t loose any to large predators, but disease, toxic plants, and parasites caused lots of issues. The ticks were never really a problem but during the drought mites became hellish.
Nice video...I’ve been thinking of using goats to clear some of my land. I know the eat cedar leaves or the green part, but do they eat the woody trunk also?
Do you have to train them to the electric netting? I have an area that would benefit from running my wethers like this, but they are used to field fence and like to stick their heads thru all the time. Great video! I really enjoyed watching it 😁
If it's good and hot the first time they touch it they won't touch it again. I've yet to have a goat escape from the netting if it's hot. You do have to be diligent about making sure it's hot. 8k volts is what I run on my netting & that will stop even a stubborn billy from thinking he'd like to be with the girls on the other side. lol
New friend here!! We just bought property and are hoping to get goats soon. Really great video. Stop by if you don't mind at Seeds and Arrows Frontier. Thanks and God bless.
Great video how ever your sound was really poor my man. Need to make sure you can be heard my friend. So we are all on the same page with what your plans are. But again great video on land clearing with just using goats. They do good work of this area.
Hey, you still put out a great video filled with useful infor. For those who know nothing or very little about farm animals and their usefulness on the property's in which they live, this was like putting that much needed spotlight on an area of farming that these people needed to see. It's not always about the big farm equipment. Sometimes it's about using that which God has placed right at our feet. That and a lot of common sense. God be with you and yours my friend.
When I spent the summer on Tobago in the West Indies they used goats but instead of fences they roped them up and move them around every few hours. The result was a good supply of milk and meat from otherwise unused land. Coconut tree above and goats grazing below work quite well for making a maximum used of land. Do goats like Kudzu and English Ivy? Both are a real problem in the woodland next to me.
Fantastic Video! So well put together :-) Now just imagine how awesome that corner would look if you came in behind with a chainsaw and mulcher on the back of a tractor. Then proceeded to wood chip up all of that deadwood and return it to the soil? Then finally hit the whole thing with a slasher.... That would be all that corner needs to return the land to perfect condition. Great Job :)
@@Tsamokie Sorry what I meant - Is that you come in behind your work with a chainsaw and a muncher that would fit onto the back of a tractor. Thus allowing you to chip up the dead wood and return that carbon to the soil.
I'm considering this option on a smaller scale. What type of goats do you have? Are you supplementing feed with goat feed? Are you providing goat minerals? I'm trying to tally the costs.
I agree on raising them pups because I had 5 bitchs and two males A section to them and it’s a natural thing for the dogs to protect the goats but there not pets and I never pet them
In a case like this, do you set out water, or do they get alot of moisture put of the plants they eat or is it a water at the end of the day, I don't know much about goats but have been playing with the idea of getting some and their uses and if course this is a good use lol, thanks
I'm just about to start a small heard of milking goats of maybe 5/6 which will hopefully build up to 50 over the course of 8 to 12 months. I have access to about 100 acres of woodland that has become derelict with ivy and Rhododendron having taken over acer after acer of the site. If I were to use the goats to clear these would the toxins in both of the plants root systems have an effect on the milk produced by my goats? I know that the Rhododendrons roots produce an acid which most eco friendly weed killers have very little impact on controlling this weed but is the stomach, the digestive system and the bowel capable of destroying the acid? It's a bit of a strange thing to ask but if I get this wrong I could easily kill my herd in a day, 😅.
I’m not sure on the milk production but it’s best to try new plants slowly with a herd and typically they are smart enough to avoid anything bad if given enough access to good foods.
So is it true that goats as a species mostly graze on the weeds and what you call brush leaving to last pasture that can be grazed by either sheep or cattle. Thanks Aussie Jeff
The best way I’ve seen it explain is sheep, goats and cattle all lean heavily toward their own favorite forage but will enjoy some things from the other animals specialties. For example the goats like weeds first but will eat some grass, the sheep like broad leaf forbs but will eat the grass and weeds, cattle prefer the grass but will sample some forbs.
I’m not sure on this specific plants but there are plenty of lists on google for the plants you want to avoid. From a quick search I see people saying their goats eat these plants more aggressively at certain times of the year.
Nice video, thank you for this information. Am sorry if I missed it, but the Start To Finish event itself, I don't think you clearly defined the number of days that transpired, for the progress made. How about updating your Video Description with more details, not just making a 20 minute video, and putting almost nothing there, other than "This video shows this clearing project from start to finish", how many goats did you use, how many days, etc..?
n7hevn I would suggest you check out more recent videos which are cleared with 300 goats in less than 120 hours. Sorry the video wasn’t to your liking, sometimes while trying to make a video on the fly after working details get left out. We will try to do better in the future.
n7hevn based on your feedback I’ve started a new video project that will include acreage of each paddock, head count, video from the ground and drone along with 2D and plant health maps of each paddock. Please be on the lookout for it and I hope it’s a more informative video.
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You would be surprised what just two goats can accomplish on five acres. I fenced off my cousins land once and ran two goats with my calves , the transformation was amazing. With the goats eating the brush it cuts down on pink eye in the cattle.
An enormous amount of work to keep goats contained but they are just the best farm friends to have around. So much fun & ❤.
We have figured out a lot of ways to not keep them contained over the years 🤣
The amount of food is the reason they get out, if lots of different plants they will stay close by
Great job. Thanks for taking the time to film and sharing their ability and progress. Bless you bro.
We bought 2 goats 27 years ago and used them to clear thick brush off of a rural piece of property we bought, they loved it. But as goats will do, the 2 mated, had a set of twins who in one night got out and ate my new young Peach, Apple, & Pear trees.
Yep, goats will be goats. Thanks for watching.
You sure it was them? You might be making them scape goats 🤪
Thanks for sharing! If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, I feel like I'd quit my life and bring my family along to do what you're doing...maybe some day! Until then, the world is a better place with people like you in it, so keep up the good work!
John M way too kind, thank you!
I ❤️ goats 🐐. They are Amazing creatures. Thanks for Sharing.!
Thanks for watching 😎
I had to watch this....I remember complaining about having to mow the lawn.. I hate to mow the lawn...and a guy at work told me to get a goat..... I thought he was joking with me ….hey LOVE your dogs...those white one are gorgeous ...
Thanks for watching 😎
That's a good point about fencing your livestock in with a den of coyotes. I hadn't thought of that. I'm planning on rotating goats through 43 acres to clear it and I've got lots of places on my property where coyotes could hide. I was focused on keeping the coyotes out, but I hadn't thought about accidently fencing them in.
awesome 1.5 acres Land with abundant lush green plants & trees for goats feed #❤️
My buddy has 2 little goats and a mama ...the other day he said he realized he hasn't had to cut the grass this year. I love goats more everyday !
They are very loving animals and the babies are so much fun !
Goats is good!!🐐
A very uniquely satisfying video to watch. Thanks for your time.
We always had a Covey of goats on the property growing up. Nobody wanted to mow. LOL
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I've always enjoyed watching goats they are great animals and great video
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Oh my goodness, @5:33 let the awesomeness overload begin.
Great job done by all.
RestAwhile Y'all thanks for watching!
Goats are hard workers!
Thank you, God bless, and happy 2019! 😉
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And delicious
@Internet Connection empty threats. Intermet gangsters at work
@Internet Connection besides i dont need to eat one of your goats i have my own i raise for meat
Goats are magnificent animal. Can be resource for Cheese, milk, meat (delicious) and nice pelts. Obviously great weed control, can live in virtually any environment and don’t require a lot of attention, relatively speaking. Natures perfect livestock. Not too mention they are comical as can be.
I don't like to offer data without providing the sources, but I'm going to break my rule because you almost touched on it, we're not talking about cancer, and I've got a good track record of scrutinizing my sources. As an added bonus I'll offer my neck on the chopping block as the weakest link in this chain of information if it's determined that blood sacrifices are necessary to curb the spread of disinformation (For this subject only). After providing the above clarification, and actually removing two that my lawyer told me to add, I've now forgotten where I was going with this.....Just kidding ..... Some medical professionals have determined that some humans have been known to receive therapeutic benefits from just sitting and watching goats. Now, my own opinion, without any sources is that I think you will have trouble getting you insurance plan to cover this.
I love this natural land clearing, great video but I had some trouble hearing you a few times
Sorry about the audio, please check some more of our recent videos, hopefully you can hear them better.
Many years ago I had 3 goats and their fenced in area had the greatest grass. All they ate were weeds and they killed off a grove of sumac trees.
Now you can actually work in the section clearing up all the dead brush and now it will let light in for grasses to grow awesome!
While fertilizing at the same time.
We have very good LGDs and with barb wire fence they will usually keep the goats in the fence
A few may get out but will return pretty quick and before dark
Allon Savory is right animals could be used as tools to work the land, n if managed right to heal the land. Thanks for video from BROOKLYN!!!!
Cutest little lawn mowers ever!
Indeed they are
They taste good too.
@@houstonbigfooter 😔👎🖕😁
Thank you for doing it right not using poison and weed killer
Thank you for watching. We are trying to do it right, it’s more difficult at first but the results are worth it.
Of course they're gonna eat the ice cream first. They are kids you know. 😁
😂
Same thing I would do!
Lol nice ♥️
Ooooo, that was ba-a-a-a-ad!
Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok. That's a dang, corny pun.
Good video of the goats eating the back brush. I too need to get goats now that I seen what they can do.
all I know my dad's goat sure did like my 1965 mustangs antenna lol.woke up and found the goat on the hood of my car chewing on the radio antenna.
Bad goat, probably didn’t live much longer
Great job to make us understand your point. I don't understand why people keep winning about the video. It's a straight forward video.
Thanks for your time and efforts to make educational videos for us
Thank you so much, we will be trying to make higher end videos soon!
@@369ranch don't mind people who came on your videos to complain. It was really informative and people keep on educate us.
Tried to do a goat rental in MO while I lived there yeah ...people felt I should pay them. Not realizing just how much work it takes to put fence up. I love goat power :) Oldtimer once said takes 200 goats to clear 1 acres in 1 day ;)
Loving Ivy Farm we used 60 and they cleared 8 acres in 6 months.
No poisons used, and lots of good fertilizer left behind!
Absolutely!
Technically what you imply isn't correct these days, only partly. Most farmers no longer use 2-4D herbicides which is probably what you reference. It's used more in consumer products but nowhere near full strength. I spray cattle pastures and hay fields with two main products, Graze-On and Remedy (they kill different species of brush) and the primary poison is burned out in a day or two and becomes totally inert in the plant as it decomposes. There is no residual poison left in the soil.
@ettekamba6969 There is no mass commercial infrastructure for goat meat here in America. It can be found at some Halal or middle eastern markets but its generally not something found easily except through farmers directly. I wouldn't buy goats for meat production, only for clearing brush in areas of my farm that are inaccessible to tractors, mowers and sprayers due to rocks or forest. I am a all angus producer with one of the largest herds in the state of Virginia, specifically of the Lucy breed. I have no interest to diversify into any other livestock.
Yessir. I had goats for a number of years and they were the tops at clearing land and keeping it clear. Yessir, their goobers were great fertilizers. I would grain them and they would spread the undigested grain seeds and wow, what lush growth.
lota land looks like thet, now ai need ta git ahold of it ,, thank you fer the video
Yes, a good example of the wonder of managed goat herds. The camera speed was too fast in some areas, but all in all a useful video. Thanks!
In public parks and forests, there are areas impossible for mowers to navigate through, goats would be ideal to clear for safety reasons.
They are great at reaching those areas.
Goats are Awesome.
Thanks for watching!
Great video
Thanks!
I've watched many of these goat videos over last couple days. Looks like my state needs to get some for the d o t to use on highways.
Great idea Zac! My thought exactly! 👍
Zac Mosier ohio actually has a goat program. There may be other states as well. The state contracts with the goat owners to clear certain areas. But you have to be careful to make sure a branch or tree doesnt come down on the fence so the goats would get out and get hit. Thats the only downside, besides predators like coyotes. As long as the fence is good,the goats are ok.
So so cool....goaty did great job...
Thanks! Goats are what I need. ;)
Back in the 90's there was some land that was clear cut and then put up for sale here in east Texas. It flooded sometimes in the fall and early spring on most of the land. No one was interested and then the sweetgum saplins took over and grew up head high or more. Finally a guy made an offer and bought the land for about $1100.00 an acre. It took him several months to string a hot wire around the land and then he bought goats and put on it. He had to cut a trail for his hot wires around the boundary. Within a few years his land was cleared and he had a beautiful place for almost nothing. It seems the goats not only ate the leaves on that sweetgum but also the bark which killed the saplins and then they even ate some of the branches and stems of those trees. He went in with a tractor and shredder and I could not believe the results. That land today is most likely worth 5 to six thousand an acre and it all started with an idea and some goats!
Precisely! Thanks for the testimonial, goats are great at reclaiming land.
That story gets my goat too...🤪
Seriously though it took years Probably because he did not use enough goats
Did the goats eat your pot crop you had hidden behind the scrub ?
Wonderful!
We just found you through Timeless fence!
We recently bought goats, Kiko/Savanah cross from an Amish neighbor!
Doing 6 wire perimeter fence, then ploy rope or 48" Premier One.
Going to put them in #aluminumchickentractor from #naturalgramma to hold them and move daily until then.
Would love to talk with you!
Natural Gramma LLC RevHank and Laura Reid
That’s great! We will have to get on a phone call sometime soon.
Just give them cd&t shots every year and watch for signs of worms
Best to read up on worm problems and keep dewormer handy
Great job dude!
I would like to know would goats be good to remove black berry brambles? My 10 acres is absolutely lousy with the plant. I plan on getting goats, but I'm trying to decide if I need to go through and try to rip out the black berries.
Yes they would enjoy that work very much
Lol 5:34
Like a group of walkers prowling ..but for green grass😝
Hi i hope you reply to this message, how do you give your goat a dewormer and how often. Thank you
It’s best to talk to vet in your area
Safe guard is the common wormer and cd&t shots ever year which is 2 units cc
Great work kids ♥️✌🐏
Good job!
Thank you for watching!
Hey great vid. I was curious if you also use the milk or any other benefits of the goats?
We don’t use the milk but you could. Some people actually use the cashmere coat as well.
Now that the goats done their work get some pigs in there to finish it of. They will turn the soil and eat the roots of all the weeds. They're a bit harder to keep in, but a wire, or two, a foot of the ground should keep them in.
I have seen that done, I think pigs are best in the wooded areas.
Crack out the chainsaw and clear the deadwood while it's accessible. Firewood, mulch or log piles
Indeed
Thanks for the vid! I didn't seem to have the bad audio some commenters did but I am using a PC.
You mentioned finding snakes and such. Are snakes a danger to the goats? Thanks for posting this video.
We haven’t had too much trouble with snakes but it’s always a possibility that a goat or guardian dog gets bit.
Rebellion Ranch at which point the whole operation is “snake bit” as it were...🤪
Love goats🤙
Later rent a wood chipper to go in really clean up, leave good old big tree...it will be aewsome...good pasture for next year....?
Hello, if you leave them long enough will they eventually eat ALL of the weeds and shrubs, even if they skip them at first????
Angel De la Cruz yes. They prefer browse rather than grazing. Less parasite load too.
Their bodyguard looked like a Kangal Dog! Love the Kangal and Akbaş breeds (Akbash)
Can anyone tell me how those boers taste after grazing on the brush … oh yea did I mention my Nubians killed one of our favorite shade trees
Did the Nubian have constant access to the tree?
I am sorry, but I could not hear you too well. The sound is not loud enough. From what I can tell, I have a question. If you get hair sheep also, would they do better with the grass since they eat down rather than up like goats?
We will have to do a better job on the sound, sorry. The sheep so far have done a great job eating the clover and other forbs that the goats don’t care for. Our goats eat a fair amount of grass but go for the browse first.
we had six scruffy goats to milk. they grazed the weedy pasture. there was a huge influx of Tansy that became a noxious weed the length of the valley from trucked in feed hay. Our land stood in the middle of 60 acres of Tansy. We had tansy too the first year. the second year tansy was pretty sparse on our little acreage in the center of tansy going to seed on the the cattle pasture next door. the third year we never had a tansy make it past the bloom. Tansy county-wide was generally taken down by the tansy moth. You only find it in forgotten corners now.
Very cool, thanks for watching
Brian, great vid. Say, can you tell me the name of the tune that is played at the 8:00 and again at the 19:00 marks? Thank you.
Did you lose any goats to predators and did the goats get alot of ticks on them?
We didn’t loose any to large predators, but disease, toxic plants, and parasites caused lots of issues. The ticks were never really a problem but during the drought mites became hellish.
Do we have to be concerned about wild cherry with goats as we do with cattle?
Absolutely! Wild cherry is a problem mainly when the leaves wilt and cause an arsenic like compound so we try to Remove all cherry trees.
Sooooo, would these be “(land)scape goats?” 🤪
Ye-sah. Zactly! hahahahaha They are also quite good at debarking logs.
Nice video...I’ve been thinking of using goats to clear some of my land. I know the eat cedar leaves or the green part, but do they eat the woody trunk also?
They will strip the trunks at certain parts of the year, typically winter.
Do you have to train them to the electric netting? I have an area that would benefit from running my wethers like this, but they are used to field fence and like to stick their heads thru all the time.
Great video! I really enjoyed watching it 😁
If it's good and hot the first time they touch it they won't touch it again. I've yet to have a goat escape from the netting if it's hot. You do have to be diligent about making sure it's hot. 8k volts is what I run on my netting & that will stop even a stubborn billy from thinking he'd like to be with the girls on the other side. lol
You do have to train them to the fencing. Most learn quickly, a few will never learn and should be culled.
Great natural clearing now you have to pile all that dead woody brush in piles and burn it.
New friend here!! We just bought property and are hoping to get goats soon. Really great video. Stop by if you don't mind at Seeds and Arrows Frontier. Thanks and God bless.
Great video how ever your sound was really poor my man. Need to make sure you can be heard my friend. So we are all on the same page with what your plans are. But again great video on land clearing with just using goats. They do good work of this area.
Sorry the sound was poor, please check out the more recent videos, hopefully you can hear them better.
Hey, you still put out a great video filled with useful infor. For those who know nothing or very little about farm animals and their usefulness on the property's in which they live, this was like putting that much needed spotlight on an area of farming that these people needed to see. It's not always about the big farm equipment. Sometimes it's about using that which God has placed right at our feet. That and a lot of common sense. God be with you and yours my friend.
Camera skills made me dizzy but awesome video about the power if goats lol 👍
LaLa I have stopped panning like that, sorry for the dizziness.
@@369ranch Thanks our eyes can't focus that fast. Great vid tho.
When I spent the summer on Tobago in the West Indies they used goats but instead of fences they roped them up and move them around every few hours. The result was a good supply of milk and meat from otherwise unused land. Coconut tree above and goats grazing below work quite well for making a maximum used of land.
Do goats like Kudzu and English Ivy? Both are a real problem in the woodland next to me.
I’ve seen people rope goats. In my experience that would be too risky, if fence isn’t an option I prefer herding dogs.
Genius🌱
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Fantastic Video! So well put together :-)
Now just imagine how awesome that corner would look if you came in behind with a chainsaw and mulcher on the back of a tractor.
Then proceeded to wood chip up all of that deadwood and return it to the soil? Then finally hit the whole thing with a slasher....
That would be all that corner needs to return the land to perfect condition.
Great Job :)
A chain saw on the back of a tractor. Wow, is that a 1-pt, 2-pt or 3-pt hitch? hehehehe
@@Tsamokie Sorry what I meant - Is that you come in behind your work with a chainsaw and a muncher that would fit onto the back of a tractor. Thus allowing you to chip up the dead wood and return that carbon to the soil.
I'm considering this option on a smaller scale. What type of goats do you have? Are you supplementing feed with goat feed? Are you providing goat minerals? I'm trying to tally the costs.
We don’t supplement food unless we have to, we always provide mineral supplements.
@@369ranch Thank you! When figuring the overall cost, that was a factor for us.
Love it good
Thanks for watching!
What breed of dogs are those and do they do a good job as guardians?
Thanks
Jim
The dog breed is KANGAL.They originates from Turkey.They guard goats.
They are Anatolion Shepherds, originally from Turkey. They do a great job but they take some work when raising them from pups.
I agree on raising them pups because I had 5 bitchs and two males
A section to them and it’s a natural thing for the dogs to protect the goats but there not pets and I never pet them
In a case like this, do you set out water, or do they get alot of moisture put of the plants they eat or is it a water at the end of the day, I don't know much about goats but have been playing with the idea of getting some and their uses and if course this is a good use lol, thanks
We have to supply water, one of the most important nutrients
Soooo did you set up water for them?
I heard you say something about a creek
where are you located ... I would like to rent your goats to clear my problem areas ... Im in NE OK.
Me too. The shoemake (sumac) and sassafrass have taken over!
@@tommymcweedface229 yep same tale here ...
We are in Kansas but no longer do grazing on other people’s property
Got some tree thinning to do now!!
What are you using for they water source?
This really gets my goat....🤪
I'm just about to start a small heard of milking goats of maybe 5/6 which will hopefully build up to 50 over the course of 8 to 12 months.
I have access to about 100 acres of woodland that has become derelict with ivy and Rhododendron having taken over acer after acer of the site.
If I were to use the goats to clear these would the toxins in both of the plants root systems have an effect on the milk produced by my goats?
I know that the Rhododendrons roots produce an acid which most eco friendly weed killers have very little impact on controlling this weed but is the stomach, the digestive system and the bowel capable of destroying the acid?
It's a bit of a strange thing to ask but if I get this wrong I could easily kill my herd in a day, 😅.
I’m not sure on the milk production but it’s best to try new plants slowly with a herd and typically they are smart enough to avoid anything bad if given enough access to good foods.
So is it true that goats as a species mostly graze on the weeds and what you call brush leaving to last pasture that can be grazed by either sheep or cattle. Thanks Aussie Jeff
The best way I’ve seen it explain is sheep, goats and cattle all lean heavily toward their own favorite forage but will enjoy some things from the other animals specialties. For example the goats like weeds first but will eat some grass, the sheep like broad leaf forbs but will eat the grass and weeds, cattle prefer the grass but will sample some forbs.
Can goats swim, and do they like it?
Do goats get that bloat that sheep get where you have to pop the gas out?
Love the use of goats just that the fencing cost almost as much as the goats.
Costs more than the goats, lol
Awesome
Thanks for watching.
Do you eat the goats or get milk or what.
I know my Moms Uncle hated their goat when he brought home a convertable to visit. The goat ate the roof. Whoops.
Ouch!! Thanks for watching.
How do goats handle Bush Honeysuckle and Russian Olive?
I’m not sure on this specific plants but there are plenty of lists on google for the plants you want to avoid. From a quick search I see people saying their goats eat these plants more aggressively at certain times of the year.
Let them get hungry first, then they nibble and acquire a taste..
That’s a lot of grazing needs hundred goats to really clean it
The number of LGDs really matters In really thick brush area
What about water?
About how many goats did all that work?
Tango Down if I remember correctly less than 100 head at that time.
@@369ranch thank you
We should provide some water during the day?
Lao Han Tun theres a creek at the bottom of the hill they had access to.
Are those American Mastiffs?
Michael Blackledge Anatolion Shepherds
@@369ranch I had an American mastiff that's a mix between English mastiff and Anatolion and it was the best dog I have ever had
Dothe goats have access to water?
Yes, they always have access to water it is an essential nutrient.
Nice video, thank you for this information. Am sorry if I missed it, but the Start To Finish event itself, I don't think you clearly defined the number of days that transpired, for the progress made. How about updating your Video Description with more details, not just making a 20 minute video, and putting almost nothing there, other than "This video shows this clearing project from start to finish", how many goats did you use, how many days, etc..?
n7hevn I would suggest you check out more recent videos which are cleared with 300 goats in less than 120 hours. Sorry the video wasn’t to your liking, sometimes while trying to make a video on the fly after working details get left out. We will try to do better in the future.
n7hevn based on your feedback I’ve started a new video project that will include acreage of each paddock, head count, video from the ground and drone along with 2D and plant health maps of each paddock. Please be on the lookout for it and I hope it’s a more informative video.
Here is our new "Goat Power" video, please let me know if you find it more informative ruclips.net/video/V3CyExAuJp8/видео.html
Billy boy boy boy boy boy
Sorry, could not hear at top volume.
Turn on the closed captions!
where is there water source...????
Water tubs, trucked in....
Great idea bud. But that audio and video quality needs some love. Other than that, good work!