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Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by drusepth »

Animats wrote: post #2

The list of services is blank. I've often seen this done. The Hetch Hetchy pipeline operator uses it to clean up their right of way, which goes up, down, and through hills. Someone puts up a temporary electric fence around the right of way, and they truck in about a hundred goats. The goats graze everything down to bare dirt, and are then moved on to the next section. I've seen this done with sheep, too. Those are ea…

> The list of services is blank.

If you're talking about the Listings page, it'll probably display as blank if you have Javascript disabled. It loads a rather large accordion list per-state after the page loads.

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Post by Animats »

drusepth wrote: post #51
Animats wrote: post #2

The list of services is blank. I've often seen this done. The Hetch Hetchy pipeline operator uses it to clean up their right of way, which goes up, down, and through hills. Someone puts up a temporary electric fence around the right of way, and they truck in about a hundred goats. The goats graze everything down to bare dirt, and are then moved on to the next section. I've seen this done with sheep, too. Those are ea…

> The list of services is blank. If you're talking about the Listings page, it'll probably display as blank if you have Javascript disabled. It loads a rather large accordion list per-state after the page loads.

AH. I have "powr.io"'s spammy tracking widgets blocked.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by yitchelle »

Story time - My dad asked the local school which had a goat if he can borrow it for a weekend. It was to tame his backyard. As the backyard was enclosed with no chance of the goat escaping, we left it by itself. The goat was be extremely hungry and ate everything insight including the roots, leaves and bark. By Monday, the backyard is barren and took months recover.

Moral of the story - keep an eye on the goat.

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Post by mingusrude »

My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or feel by the end of the summer that they want to let the rabbit loose, they can return it for free.

What she does not tell is that our brother-in-law is a chef and happily makes rabbit stew of the returned rabbits. If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it.

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Post by jaimex2 »

gwbas1c wrote: post #24
jaimex2 wrote: post #19

So you want me to pay you to feed your goats?

Uhm, goats are by far the cheapest way to clear out certain kinds of brush and noxious plants. They're also cute and act like dogs. Pesticides are dangerous and still leave a dead plant, machines jam (and lop off fingers,) doing it by hand takes a long time and can risk major rashes from poison ivy or cuts from thorns. Part of my back yard is impenetrable from the kinds of plants goats eat.

There's going to be poop everywhere and potential damage if they aren't confined. They'll climb and gnaw on everything and anything. The goats will be spreading the weed seeds.

I'm not saying they are bad, I'm just saying you're being a schmuck if you pay someone to have their goats graze on your land.

Get your own grazers or let them do it for free.

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Post by jaimex2 »

bobthepanda wrote: post #31
gwbas1c wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm, goats are by far the cheapest way to clear out certain kinds of brush and noxious plants. They're also cute and act like dogs. Pesticides are dangerous and still leave a dead plant, machines jam (and lop off fingers,) doing it by hand takes a long time and can risk major rashes from poison ivy or cuts from thorns. Part of my back yard is impenetrable from the kinds of plants goats eat.

Also, goats deal really well with sloped areas that machines and people struggle with. Where I live they get used a lot on highway embankments.

Electric mowers and brush cutters solved that years ago. They weigh nothing.
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