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Chattanooga using goats to fight kudzu
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| 8/20/6
Posted on 08/20/2006 8:22:16 AM PDT by SmithL
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Do moose like kudzu?
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:22:17 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Mmmmmmm, I just love my kudzu in the morning before the White House briefings.
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:26:08 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: SmithL
No, but muslim men like goats.
I would rather have the kudzu.
To: Enterprise
LOL! (Swallowed coffee just seconds prior to reading that!) Catastrophe averted!!
To: butternut_squash_bisque
Whew! Glad to hear that. It's just dreadful to waste good coffee.
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:38:48 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: SmithL
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy the goats? Oh, that's right; it's a city government - hate to do anything the cheaper way!
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:39:12 AM PDT
by
logic101.net
(Support OUR troops, NOT their's!)
To: Enterprise
To: SmithL
I'll be moving to Chattanooga soon..
Gonna be a Kudzu eradication tycoon..
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:41:27 AM PDT
by
csvset
("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
To: SmithL
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:41:49 AM PDT
by
zgirl
To: zgirl
Ok, that's actually Kudzu recipes. (YUM!???)
Let's try this HTML thing again... 
Kudzu-eating goats!
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posted on
08/20/2006 8:45:39 AM PDT
by
zgirl
To: SmithL
More Kudzu!
...Goat Proof? Only his deoderant knows for sure!
To: csvset
I was just thinking that, myself.
The article is inaccurate in saying that eating kudzu back to the root will kill it. It can come back from an apparently dead root after 10 years, or even longer. You have to dig up the root (after eradicating every bit of vine and spreading creepers), and the root can weigh 400 pounds and be as big as a horse.
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posted on
08/20/2006 9:01:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: zgirl
I made kudzu lasagne last fall. The eaters said it was too fibrous to substitute for spinach as-is. If I try it again this year, I'll steam the leaves first.
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posted on
08/20/2006 9:01:56 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: Tax-chick
Can kudzu be made into a bio fuel? It seems as if it has great regenerative abilities.
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posted on
08/20/2006 10:53:33 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: Enterprise
The regenerative ability is the goat farmer who supplies 50 goats for only $1800 a month so that he doesnt have to feed them. Everyone should be in that business.
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posted on
08/20/2006 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
Concho
(IRS--Americas real terrorist organization.)
To: Tax-chick; aomagrat; AnAmericanMother; archy
To: Tax-chick
Actually, I can speak from personal experience that
continuous eating of kudzu back to the roots by our little caprine friends will indeed kill it stone cold dead, without digging up the roots.
At our old house, the City of Atlanta had a kudzu-covered abandoned right of way adjoining ours and 3 neighbors' house lots that they never bothered with. Naturally it spread and kept spreading. I dug up roots until I was tired . . . then we got goats.
The trick is that they keep it eaten back continuously -- the roots don't get any nourishment and they die. Took two seasons to get rid of it completely, but we got rid of it.
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posted on
08/20/2006 12:49:40 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Tax-chick
Well, gee, I said the same thing on the previous thread, at post No. 3.
It must be true, I read it on the internet . . ..
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posted on
08/20/2006 12:50:43 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
Ah, I'll keep that in mind if we ever get kudzu or goats. Did you wait 10 years, though, to see if it's really dead :-)?
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posted on
08/20/2006 12:54:32 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: Concho
The problem is conservation of mass...... all that goes in the goat on one end comes out on the other end.
What are they going to do with all that goat ##### ?
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posted on
08/20/2006 12:57:39 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Keep watch for the Mahdi...... he's coming on 22 August!!)
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