[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

I guess it doesn't sound quite right!

All the goats have candy names; I haveLollipop, Carmel, Skittles and Tootsie
Roll.  They sound like names that a "working girl" might take!  In fact here in
Phoenix is a strip club named the Candy Store.

Nella

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

> 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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