Central Coast Green Goats provides natural brush management by using goats instead of machinery. The goats happily work all day and eat most unwanted plants including weeds, poison oak, berry bushes, thistles, and even trim up oak trees. They often play on and scratch their horns on unwanted bushes which reduce the amount of coyote brush in many areas. Depending on where the goats are, you may eve
n see our guardian dog, Bo Duke, keeping an eye on everything. When our goats get a job, they are transported to the site and are kept in the area with electric net fencing. Not only does this keep the goats in, but it keeps predators out. Depending on the size of the area and how dense the brush is, many pens can be built for the goats to move through to ensure proper grazing of the area. Most jobs that the goats are hired for are large areas near homes or buildings that need to have brush removed for fire breaks. Most of these areas are hillsides that tractors would have a difficult and dangerous time mowing, but the goats are well adapted to hills and will do just as good of a job removing potential fire hazards. Their hooves actually compact the soil and prevent erosion. Other jobs include clearing dense creek beds to prevent flooding, spot grazing thistles in pastures to prevent their return, grazing poison oak patches to clear an area for other uses, grazing steep hillsides that cannot be accessed by tractors, and many other reasons! If you are in need of brush management, goats provide an environmentally friendly way to clear brush year round and without danger of starting a fire from mowing! Prices vary depending on the nature of the job, so there is no set price for a goat grazing service. These goats are well trained and will follow the goat girl many places with out much fuss. Some of these goats have names, but they all have personalities!
