[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Tracy:

I've heard of people doing that with goats.  In Arizona they were used in the
Prescott forest to eat undergrowth.  This was to help cut down on forest fires.
 The goats and goat herders were hired from the Navajo nation.  I believe about
500 goats were used.  I think they are doing it almost every summer.

Nella




Quoting Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>:

> I just read a big article in my local paper about how an organization hired
> a herd of goats to clean up a lot of poison ivy growing in some woods they
> want to make available for hiking and nature studies.  They paid about $3200
> to the company Green Goats to have the herd for a few weeks.  The company
> required the organization to make sure someone came every day to give the
> goats water and such.  I thought that was odd.  If they were my goats, I'd
> want to check on them myself, and not leave it to strangers.  Or maybe I or
> the writer misunderstood that bit.
> The article said the goats did a good job.  The town was supposed to follow
> up and spray the roots, but they waited too long, and the poison ivy grew
> back, so they might need the goats again.
> But anyway, it seems like people with goat herds could make good money
> renting them out.
> Tracy
>
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