Emanuele La Barbera and Alessandra Rabittiis, organic farmers in Umbria, Italy, have found a natural way of reducing the number of parasites causing suffering to their goats. Emanuele and Alessandra herd 70 camosciata delle alpi goats and produce milk and dairy products. Most of their farmland is dedicated to pasture, cereals and legumes – which are needed for feed. They produce a variety of different organic goat’s cheeses that they sell directly from the farm. Alessandra: “We did not want to use chemical treatments and started to look for an alternative solution. We brought in black laying hens that help keep the parasites at bay by feasting on the insect larvae.”