Goat Grazing
Northwest Grazing offers goat grazing to help you manage your vegetation. The goats do a great job helping reduce blackberries, poison oak, yellow starthistle, knapweed, scotch broom, as well as removing fine fuels to make your home fire safe. Goats are ruminants, like cows, sheep, and giraffes. Their unique multi-chambered digestive tract helps them digest these seemingly impossible-to-eat fibrous materials. They then return this material to the soil via their dung, increasing soil fertility, improving soil carbon and presenting opportunities to reclaim your land. Like all other management techniques, grazing works best over time and with multiple “treatments.”
How We Work
We like to start with a site visit, which allows us to determine feasibility, make a plan, and give you an accurate quote.
We supply reliable and effective electric net fencing, the goats, livestock guardian dogs, a water trailer if necessary, and goat necessities. We typically put the whole herd on every job, 200+ goats. We are on site daily and need full access. We often segment jobs into small “pastures” and move the goats once or twice daily to make sure they don’t leave much behind.
Cost is determined on a per job basis. It depends on density of vegetation, size, distance, terrain, and labor necessary to clear, build, and maintain fences.
Free site visits.
The best way to get started is to book a site visit. Site visits give you a chance to share your goals for your property and help me give you an accurate quote.
