I’ve heard goats are pretty much omnivores - they’ll eat just about EVERYTHING including non-food things. Is that true?
They'll have nothing to do with meat. They'll NOT eat the cat's food; even the dry stuff; but they will eat the duck's food.
The cat's will not eat the goat food, but the ducks will; as well as the cat food.
(Sounds like one of those puzzles about getting the animals across the river; doesn't it!)
Goats WILL consume paper products: cardboard, your napkin, the mail, the box your newly bought 5 pounds of nails came in, apples (these they WILL eat off the ground; whether containing worms or not), the bark off of the apple tree (when they were young), instructions to the grill you just bought, and the wood/plywood material from any barnyard toy you've made them.
They do help a bit with brush control, but they are greatly out numbered by the amount of brush I have. Like fine wine (to a goat) is aged brush - or not. Sometimes they'll eat it green; other times it has to sit for a spell. They'll even brave the flames of a burning brush pile to retrieve a choice specimen that I have failed to let them inspect first.
We’ve all seen the pictures of a goat ‘eating’ a tin can.
Actually, all he wants is the paper label.
I’ve lost many a label to them from the garden chemicals with the small booklet attached. I’ve had to go online to find out the dilution ratio for bug spray, weed killer, fertilizer...
The wife says if I’d just LEAVE them in the barn/pasture, none of this would happen.