About 80% of a goat's diet can come from browse and goats are often happy to eat multiflora rose. Adding some goats to your pasture can help remove woody plants. ... They also need to continue eating these plants to the ground until the root reserves are used and the plant dies.

What eats multiflora roses?

Herbivores. Goats and sheep can help control multiflora rose. They eat brush and other weedy broadleaves, allowing pastureland species to prosper and improving grazing conditions for livestock. ... Unlike the others, goats destroy small woody plants by debarking and are not deterred by thorny vegetation.

What invasive species do goats eat?

About 600 goats graze an area intensively to help control invasive weed species like, leafy spurge, musk thistle and cedar trees. The paddock is moved about every 12 hours, depending on the amount of plant material, because the goats are very effective in eating the weeds.