[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[Jody W Ianuzzi]

They use goats to keep airports trim too. 


JODY

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!" Thomas Jefferson

On Oct 19, 2013, at 12:37 PM, nfoster at extremezone.com wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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> 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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