Goats Eat Weeds - Farm to Fork Wyoming 

I have and it's great and I love my goats. Kids will be here Nov/Dec can't wait.

Pretty sure ranchers see it everyday when they run their cattle on range land. The cattle do the same thing as the goats when there's grass & cattle fodder for them to eat. I think too many enviros want to pull all animals off the range & let "mother nature" take over. Its a one sided view and it need s to be realized that grazing can be a good thing for the rangelands.

@@calichekid8897 Yes, if properly managed. You can't just release a bunch of cattle onto a range and expect the grass to thrive, or the cattle for that matter. Cows need to be moved in a mob so they can mow. They don't want to eat where they have fertilized the ground, they like fresh grass. Grass doesn't like to be continuously munched on, it needs to have months of rest so by the time they get back to that patch of grass, the plants have grown to their most nutritious stage. Herbivores are used to being close together to avoid being eaten by predators. They tend to go to the high ground where they can see what predators are coming, and while up there, they move nutrients from the low grounds to the high grounds. Nature's way is always the best. Cows weren't meant to sit around and graze on the same pasture for months at a time.

Havilahki these are truly conservationist. God gave us the means to take care of our world if we would just use it everyone would be healthier

You can pop off the bloom that seed, but that just drives the roots deeper and it's pruned! Which means MORE branching and more seeds on each plant. Notice he goes around to pop off branches, to make it appear the goats ate it all, so that they score more jobs. It also hard on goats with fur coats, to stand for hours in a truck in the heat, they pass infections, bacteria and it's stressful to the goats, the meat if butchered is usually bad and can't be sold then, so carcus's go to landfills when they have still births, or other ailments. Look up the goats and flukes... www.fao.org/3/t0756e/T0756E06.htm

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Horses like it too.

Wilfrid G Yeesh, isn’t that bad for their throats and stuff?

Pretty much everything except humans have no reaction to it.

She knows shit and talks shit. Good things for a farmer.

Soil biome and knowing local flora are just the basics of permaculture. And it’s her livelihood so these are things she needs to know to market the services of her goats. She certainly is charismatic on camera though.

Smart Folks doing the tough jobs the right way. Common sense trumping the big chemical company. You go girl!!!

Lani Malmberg is her name, she’s very knowledgeable.

Wow, one of the best documentaries I've had the pleasure of seeing, up to this point i had a very low opinion of goats but after this my opinion has changed. Very well explained in common sense language and delivered by people who know what they are talking about, Above and below the ground. Well done on your excellent documentary.

I commented before viewing the entire video. The information you provided is absolutely fascinating to me. I've sold some of my goats to people that use them for the same purpose so I know it is popular even in SC but had no idea how much it helps the ecosystem. I wish I had more 'weeds' for mine. I guess they eat them before I know it. I do feed them hay and grain in the winter mostly but they are so spoiled and won't leave me alone until I feed them a little bit of grain, Goat chow. And they do come running when they see us trim limbs off of trees. I completely relate the to chainsaw story in the video. I laughed out loud. I'm going to show this video to my husband later tonight when he gets home. He will love it too. We moved out here in 2000 and he said he wanted to get a couple goats. I've always loved all kinds of animals but never had a goat. The first time we went to an auction we ended up coming home with 6 pygmy goats. We couldn't get just 2 LOL.... Had a horse (Cricket) too and she loved the goats. She was amazing. I was worried when one of the does had kids. I was scared that the horse may step on them. She never did. She would freeze and not move at all when she knew the babies were under her. My husband even saw her use her head to guide a very young kid back to the shed when it was raining. Our goats don't like rain AT ALL. The mother of the kid was under the shed out of the rain, so Cricket found her baby and made sure it was safe. I wish I had been there to see that. Then over the years we had some goats jump on the back of Cricket from a platform we built for them to play on. She never minded in the least. I no longer have Cricket. Sure wish I did but my husband is elderly and he couldn't work her and ride like he thought he should. She did have 2 foals though. That was an incredible experience for both of us. Anyway, I know I'm rambling but what you are doing is fantastic. Visit my RU-vid page sometime at ru-vid.com. I've gone to the birds now with peafowl, pheasants, and chickens and of course the goats.

@@ChasSquirrel that is an interesting rant (from 3 years ago, Goats & weeds in Wyoming). I laughed out loud when he said goats cover a LOT of ground, if he leaves the goats alone for 5 days he'll probably get a call from the Canadian mounties.

so do you put in the chickens after goats ? to eat bugs or ?

I'd guess it'd be because chickens eat the insects in the goats' and cows' dung, and insects generally, while scratching up the land and, of course, further fertilizing it. So you get much fewer problem insects, fertilized land and very tasty chickens.

The chickens following the grazers to eat up the larva and insects that would be harmful to the grazers. For instance, roundworm and tapeworms larvas goes through a cow and deposit on the ground when they developed they climb up on the grass and wait for other cows to come by and eat them. So you either have to use deworming medicine on the cattle or use the Chicken to break the cycle by eating the worm larva. And as blixten2928 the by product is also beneficial with the scratching the the chicken dropping which is one of most nitrogen rich dropping there are. And you get organic eggs.

Exactly right. If you time the chickens correctly behind your grazers they'll not only eat the larvae of any parasites or flies, but they'll also help break up the manure on the ground and get that nutrition back into the ground for the grass to grow back faster. They then add their own manure which is also great.

Sarah Lunafire i use robots and plutonium to kill the weeds..works great

You need 2 Goat. They need a partner lol

Blame USA even one goat is a lot of work.

Manfred Ziegerer they don’t. I’ve seen lots of lone goats. They prefer being solitary. I have a wether that killed all his herd mates. He’s happy alone. I currently have to lock him up because he’s trying to kill my alpine doelings.

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I have seen that talk. They hope that by forbidding grazing, pasture will return. But the native grazing animals won't come back, because there are allready human settlements, that the away the water sources, so wild animals won't just come back.

Sandy Marshfoot - Traveling Hobbit Goat is very tasty. Also healthy.

Sandy Marshfoot - Traveling Hobbit what would you do with the over population then? It’s better to eat them than to just kill them off and dispose of them like #bigag does.

@@Darksong1212 if you don't breed your goats, then you won't have an overpopulation problem.

Sort of. Goats eat (browse) trees, and contribute to goatification. Sheep prefer forbes (weeds). There was some serious omissions, too. Some grasses get deep roots too. Zero is said on the problem on cattle *overgrazing* which is different from cattle grazing. Cattle and sheep have the same herding behaviors as goats.

Toothless Seer depends on the following rest period between grazings.

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