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Not of the grass is well-established with a good root system. If the grass has been seeded in in under a year, has a shallow root system, is in loose soil and is allowed to be overgrazed, most likely yes.

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no they don't they just eat the grass and if they pull up the roots thy fling their head back and froth until they get the grass off

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