On the mountains and in the valleys of the United States the Angora has
had a variety of food. He is a natural browser, and will live almost
entirely on brush, if this kind of food is to be found, but he readily
adapts himself to circumstances, and will live and do well upon an
exclusively grass diet. The fact that the goat is a browser has been
made use of in clearing farms of brush and objectional weeds. If a
sufficient number of goats are confined upon a limited area for a period
of time, they will kill most of the brush upon this land. They will eat
almost every kind of brush, but they have their preferences and enjoy
especially blackberry vines and those kinds of brush which contain
tannic acid, such as scrub oak. They do not poison easily, and if there
is a variety of food they rarely eat enough of any kind of poisonous
plant to prove fatal. If, however, they are hungry, and have access to
places where there are poisonous plants, they will eat enough to kill
themselves.