Do goats eat himalayan blackberry?
Yes — thorns and all. A goat favorite.
Invasive Himalayan blackberry forms thickets that are miserable for humans and machinery — and goats walk straight in and start eating. Thorns don't deter them; their mouths and lips are built for exactly this kind of browse, and blackberry leaves are genuinely nutritious forage.
A herd will strip a thicket to bare canes surprisingly fast. The canes themselves and the root crowns survive a single pass, so lasting control means repeat grazing as regrowth emerges — each round weaker than the last — or a one-two punch of goats followed by mechanical removal of the skeletal canes, now safely visible and accessible.
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