[Ag-eq] Green Goats
Jody W Ianuzzi
jody at thewhitehats.com
Sat Oct 19 18:22:46 UTC 2013
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:
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> Tracy:
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> 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.
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> Nella
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> Quoting Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>:
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>> 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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