When goats eat weeds will they eat and destroy the whole weed? Or do they eat just down to the surface level of the ground which will let the weed grow back immediately?
Goat Rental – Hire Goats
161–170 of 280 posts
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Letting them free will likely get them eaten anyway, probably less humanly since they’ll still be alive while they are eaten. Or run over. These are domesticated rabbits, not wild ones.
Would you rather be released from prison into a dangerous world or executed?
People aren’t domesticated rabbits.
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#163Another story from a fellow hacker with a backyard goat - It actually starts in a very subtle way. Goats have different tastes and moods, and it's not like they eat everything right away unless the density of a goat per backyard m2 is too high. I started giving mine some free "roaming" time with the chickens every day before the sunset. It looked very innocent - first few days she ate just some weeds, nettle and some…
at least she didn't eat the chicks.
When I was a child we had pigs and chickens next to each other. The chickens started sleeping atop the resting pig since it was warm. It was cute until the pig started devouring the chickens!
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
They can, in fact, safely return the rabbit to the stew pot. They're food. Rabbits. People eat them. It's not better for the rabbit to be turned loose to be mauled to death by a housecat or eaten by a coyote. A shelter is going to euthanize, wasting good meat. This is squeamishness masquerading as morality.
That's not the point. I have literally nothing against eating rabbits - they are delicious in fact. I do hover, object to lying. Like OP said - they(everyone in fact) have the right to make an informed choice. By omitting this information, people who are returning a rabbit aren't making an informed choice. It's a trick, a ruse, if money was involved I'd call it a fraud. Nothing to do with squeamishness.
They're returning the rabbits to the previous owners. There's no further expectation of duty to either party.
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#165You don't rent a goat, you lease that surly bastard
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#166My dad hired goats to mow down his entire lot in the Hell's Canyon area of Eastern Washington. Saved his cabin from a wildfire, and got the dang thistles reduced to nothing. It was a bargain too, $400.
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
> with no chance of the goat escaping Bold assumption there. As they say, "if it doesn't hold water it won't hold a goat."
As long as extracting whatever food there is is less effort than circumventing the fence the goat will remain...
I think modeling a goat as a rational agent is also pretty bold :-)
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve had several friends have rabbits in my lifetime. They all t eventually let them go instead of finding a new home. Each time I looked at them in horror while I imagined the lucky hawk having dinner. Most people think rabbits are “natural” when they may actually be invasive. So they let them go. Finding a new home is the last thing on every one of these owners mind.
These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.
It's not contradictory in the slightest, the odds of a domesticated and domestic rabbit surviving predation are effectively nil.
The odds that it manages a litter first are higher, especially if it escapes pregnant, which rabbits generally are if they're able to be. Those pups are feral, not domestic, and have moderately better odds. Given enough generations, the domesticated neoteny is selected out by predation and now you have an invasive population of feral rabbits which can survive in the wild.
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#169The map on this page has some sort of CSS issue in Firefox. It constantly resizes and shakes. Using the page zoom function is enough to get it to eventually stop.
Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats
#170The map on this page has some sort of CSS issue in Firefox. It constantly resizes and shakes. Using the page zoom function is enough to get it to eventually stop.
It jiggles in a most unpleasant manner for me as well.
I love these types of bugs. If these guys are going for a "Goat Simulator" vibe (notoriously buggy, part of the charm), they've nailed it.