Goats
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Zeitler: Grazing goats discern leaves from cocoons and avoid destroying nests
“And the wonderful thing about using goats versus the method that you were just describing is that the goats eat around birds' nests. They eat around chrysalis and cocoons that might be growing on the bush. They can actually discern, like, what's a leaf and wha…”
Zeitler says 15 goats clear an acre of brush in two weeks
“So for an acre of something like raspberry plants, multiflora rose, about 15 goats could clear the acre in about two, two and a half weeks.”
Zeitler: Goats sterilize ingested plant seeds, preventing weed regrowth
“When goats eat, they actually sterilize everything that they're eating, so it's a really ideal way of dealing with invasive plants or problem plants or things like poison ivy that we don't want there, because that plant can't regrow from the goat's waste.”