[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[Jody W Ianuzzi]

Hire out the girls?
Now that sounds kinky. ;-)


JODY

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

On Oct 19, 2013, at 4:02 PM, nfoster at extremezone.com wrote:

> 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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