I'm kinda laid up right now with either Mono or Lyme, pick one. But I do try to make it down a couple times a day into the woods, to top trees too small to keep in the eventual first graze area, 100 x 150 ft. The system works like this - goats, Albert and sheep run in the woods most of the day, eating what they can reach. This opens up the undergrowth enough for me to get 8ft or so into the woods, topping small trees and dragging them to piles. Livestock then eats all leaves and bark off of brush piles, and moves into newly opened area, readying it in about 2 hrs for me to cut again. I work 5-10 min, rest on the couch for an hour. So it goes.
Sheep and goats don't eat the same things, at all. Sheep eat things chest height and lower, goats tend to eat chest height and higher, as high as they can reach at full stretch on their hind legs.
So here is Nova, with the flock in an area I've just cut, and an example of a tree goat.
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