This is actually a thing though. They eat blackberry. No one would be cruel enough to make an April Fools joke and suggest they have a way to remove blackberry without destroying your land.
I don't know if this is a "thing" nationwide. But hiring/renting goats is a fairly common thing in the Seattle area as they will eat back large amounts of difficult to remove brush.
They are particularly useful here because there are large amounts of protected "wetland" scattered throughout the area. This means you aren't legally allowed to bring in heavy machinery to modify the landscape. You are though, allowed to have animals do it for you.
+1 not an April Fools joke. I rented a few goats to clear a big section of invasive blackberry in my backyard. Goats are pretty much the only way to get rid of the horrible stuff without nasty chemicals and scratching the hell out of yourself. I'd been battling the blackberry for 10 years. Two weeks of goats over two spring seasons and the stuff hasn't come back.
I've used a goat service to clean up my backyard in San Francisco. There's a time lapse of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paxvsQOAI48 where you can mainly just see the goats moving around.
In my area, they use goats in town along heavily traveled bike and foot paths to control noxious weeds such as knapweed and leafy spurge. Goats are reported to be more effective than chemical herbicides and don't harm beneficial bugs, fungi, and bacteria. Children love to stop and watch the goats, too.
This is by far the most relevant comment. I can't count how many times I've seen goats grazing in parks and other public/private property lately. In San Francisco, no less.
While I was in the army (Bulgaria), one drill-sergeant was bringing his sheep to graze the area where we were situated, thus benefiting on free grass (it was everywhere)... While not a problem in general, there were some cases of ticks and mites spreading.
I contacted them via the "feedback" form and got a call within an hour. This service is apparently offered to the Seattle region only. I wish I had a bunch of goats to go. :)
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