[Lorianne]

[Doctor 2Brains]

For later

[GraceG]

Goat milk ain’t all that bad.

[publius911]

The goats fighting America's plant invasion

Inquiring minds need to know...

Are all these goats halal or makruh?
Will they all have to go through metal and explosive detectors?

[Bobalu]

[Brother Cracker]

[golux]

goats are increasingly popular in the US, it is true. And why not?

They are available almost anywhere, they are appetizing, and they are halal.



Also, when you are finished, you can eat them.

[Aliska]

Fascinating. They will eat all the good plants along with the bad so unless the intention is to clear the land, some other strategy needs to be devised. Still it's encouraging because even if they eat the good, if they are going to be all crowded out by kudzu or fast-growing invasives anyway, it still may be the right approach to clear it all.

I was surprised they will eat conifer needles, don't know about the sharp ones.

They may be doing rosarians an especially big favor in time, eating up all the multi-flora roses which are ground zero for spreading the dreaded rose rosette disease. It turns garden roses into witches' broom type growth which is reddish, possibly can be treated but best to put the infected plant in a garbage bag, dig it out, and burn it. It's a mite that drifts in the wind that spreads it.

I want some goats. I love goats' milk and saw some in the store last time I was there so may treat myself to some.

There's a link at the source article for a map of every goat in the US, a lot especially in Texas.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Goats? Great idea! They’ll clear that kudzu right out! Look what they did to the the Sahara Desert! And we’ll have work for all our new Somali goatherd immigrants!

[eartrumpet]

I know some people who run goats on the BLM and Forest to eat invasive weeds. They give them aerial photos or satellite photos with the weed patches located and circled. The goats are herded there and kept on the patch until it is gone. They sell the young bucks to meat markets back east and call them Muslim turkeys because they are real popular around Thanksgiving.

[NorthMountain]

Looks like they're eating kudzu.

They better work quickly, or the kudzu will eat them ...