[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Maybe I should try and hire out the girls!

I use mine to keep the weeds out of the dog yard.  I don't have grass since I
live in the desert and I refuse to water that much, but lots of pesty desert
weeds come up.  The goats, Cruiser and Jack keep their paddocks picked clean. 
Since dogs don't eat weeds they can get pretty bad if I don't let the livestock
eat them down.  I've also walked my goats on leashes along the front of my
property.  Weeds get between the fence and curb.  So, I let the goats mow up
and down the strip!

Nella

Quoting Jody W Ianuzzi <jody at thewhitehats.com>:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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