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Goats don’t appreciate the aesthetics of a well-tended flower garden or a fruit orchard. (They do appreciate the taste of it, though.) They are browsers, which means that they prefer bushes, trees, and woody plants. They also prefer variety in their diet and so try most of the plants that are available.

If you have a favorite lilac or rose bush, apple tree, or even a large fir tree, be ready to have it relieved of leaves, bark, and ultimately its life. If you want to keep any flowers or bushes and trees, make sure they aren’t growing in an area where your goats might go. You can fence them off, or in the case of trees, you can goat-proof them. The upcoming sections give you ideas for protecting your plants and trees.