Will Goats Be Able To Help My Situation?
Let's Look at Some Scenarios
Fire Load Reduction/Fire Breaks
The Purpose of a firebreak is to provide an area of reduced fuel load which will reduce the intensity of a fire and therefore allow for more effective combating of a fire.
Goats can achieve that with minimal impact on the environment as they eat not only the grass and weeds on the ground but also tree foliage up to a height of around 2 metres.
This fire break was created at great expense prior to Cyclone Debbie. Now it is impossible to get machinery into it. Abbey Grove Wonder Weeders could be taken in on foot to keep down the new growth and weeds.
Weed and Pasture Management
Starting a new enterprise, preparing new pastures, or just cleaning up paddocks before reintroducing stock?
Goats are great at cleaning up brush and unwanted vegetation. By getting goats to clean up an area prior to use, an area can be better assessed for maximum yield. Goats will expose obstacles that machinery would founder over.
Prior to this photo, this hillside was choked with paddock weed and riddled with sink holes which are a tip hazard to Machinery.
Underbrush Clearing
Underbrush clearing is a less intensive version of land clearing. This can be achieved by using our goat crew rather than scraping the land down to the bare earth and damaging topsoil or sensitive native habitat.
It is hard to conceive that this area was once choked with lantana, holly, strangler fig, and other weeds.
Riparian (River and Waterways) Managed Grazing
Riparian maintenance is vital to help control and manage waterways. The environmentally friendly team at Abbey Grove Farmstead can scale most terrain, will reduce undesirable weed such as Cat's Claw, and they have minimal impact on the biome.
At the beginning of the dry season Abbey Grove Wonder Weeders visited this dam. They cleared the choking weed and underbrush that ran to the water's edge, but being a bit shy of getting their feet wet, they left all the vital reed for nesting wildlife.