After goats:
This is going to piss off the Muzzies.
And then you get to kill and eat them when they’re done!
I believe they are BOER goats?
I never saw the suppoded contrast from their eating brush.
We used to live in the SF Bay area. There were a number of nice parks that we liked to walk in in the summer evenings and even during the day during the winter rainy season.
Then, to save money the county brought in goats to do the grass mowing and brush control in early summer each year. Well, it turns out that a herd of goats will turn an 18" high stand of grass into 2" or 3" of goat poop spread rather evenly over the ground.
People driving by and looking at the hillside think it is nicely mowed and close cropped. If you get out of your car and actually walk on the "ground" you discover that you are walking in a sea of little goat berries. Pretty disgusting for anyone who actually wants to use the park instead of just looking at it.
And the best is yet to come, for when the rains start, the goat berries reconstitute into a sea of mushy goat poop.
The goats made the park land completely unusable.
Are they good workers?
Not baa aaa aaad.
Let them eat all they want, then let’s get out the BBQ!
The rangers better get in there fast and plant something else. If the rain gets there first you get mud slides.
Goats work cheap! They work for food!
My years ago my cousin bought a house in the outskirts of Trumball, Conn. which was thick with brush. He couldn’t use a lawnmower so he rented a goat, put it on a long chain attached to a spike in the middle of the area.
It worked and the goat lived to eat another day.
I once had an old goat for a mother-in-law. I should have put her on a chain and made her clear something. She needed to lose a few pounds but as luck would have it, I had no land to clear. Some goats have all the luck.
I recall watching a golf tournament a couple of years ago that showed the course used goats on some of the hillsides to eat the plants/grass growing there. It helped to reduce the risk of fires and was much cheaper than having humans do the removal.
I just love goats, they can be the most wonderful of pets.
Raise them from babies and they simply adore you.
I actually pity people who have not had the opportunity to be friends with a lovable goat :-)
A tad off topic, but years ago I read in one of those Mother Earth magazines about a guy in Missouri how had a small tract of hard soil land overgrown with brush and wanted some suggestions on economically clearing it out.
Some old farmer suggested pigs, saying they not only would clear the area in no time, they would roto-till and fertilize it as well.
A follow-up letter thanked the farmer, saying they worked better than any machinery.