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Hoof and Ladder, LLC, PO Box 18731, Golden, CO 80402
official Goats On The Go® affiliate
Targeted goat grazing for fire and weed mitigation
Why goats?
Goats are a more natural and sustainable alternative to traditional gas-powered equipment for reducing noxious and invasive weeds, overgrown vegetation, brush, and dangerous ladder fuels.
Their digestion and natural movements provide numerous benefits to the soil as they remove and reduce unwanted vegetation.
Goats are extremely agile and light on their feet, making it easy to access steep terrain with little disruption to the land.
Goats have the added benefit of:
- NO toxic chemicals
- NO loud and polluting equipment
- NO heavy machinery
Benefits of goats
- reduced risk of erosion
- easy to navigate steep, rocky and hard to access terrain
- goats can move through dense, woody and thorny brush with ease
- digestion renders most seeds unviable reducing seed load for future seasons
- hooves till and aerate the soil creating better absorption for water and nutrients
- goat waste is an excellent natural fertilizer
Plus, goats are endlessly entertaining to watch!
What will goats eat?
Goats will happily devour vegetation that is typically difficult or harmful for humans to deal with, including:
- poison ivy
- thistles
- scrub oak
- multiflora rose
- buckthorn
- rabbitbrush
- and so much more!
Before & after
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