Poison Ivy Eating Goats are a Thing In New York
Over the weekend my wife and I did a lot of yard work. We have about five acres and about half of it is wooded with a lot of poison ivy.
I jokingly said we should get some goats to eat all this. My wife replied, you know goats eat poison ivy right? I had no clue that they weren't allergic to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. Not only are they not allergic to it...they freakin' love to eat it.
A few farms out there will rent a small herd of goats to come to your property and basically eat all the invasive weeds you want. They will bring them to your property, build a temporary fence to keep the goats in the area you want to be cleared, and then set them loose to gobble up all the poison ivy and other weeds.