Hey HD! "Exotic Vegetation Removal" (goats)

Thomas Linton

Thomas Linton

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The City of Chattanooga has hired a herd of goats for "Exotic Vegetation Removal." If they do good, they will be back in the Spring.

HD, I see a glowing future for you. GET ON THE BAND WAGON! :thumbup:
 
They definitely do the job. I assume they are using them against kudzu in Chattanooga. We use them for briars in Oregon. Below are some of ours at work and in an area where they have all but obliterated the briars.

Started out with 57 ewes last year. We're up to 140 kids, ewes,and withers this year. The kids are cute little blighters.

James
 

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The real money here would be in "Organically Processed Exotic Vegitation Removal" or goat poop scooping! A thus-far untapped market. :thumbup:
 
I actually went to a meeting sponsored by the Wayne Co. Extension service about this very thing. They had got some folks from the utility companies to attend and they were lukewarm.

Apparently they will pay landowners to keep their own right of ways clear, but not contract. They would rather do roundup. I have a HUGE high voltage line running across the back of my property but I have to walk all the way up the hollow to get to it. I asked them about being able to gain access to it to do this using the access roads just as the contracted clearing crews do, but they were also noncommittal on it.

So until I retire and have time to walk the herd back there or something I've got that one on hold.
 
The Lake Lanier Dam has a small herd of goats that keeps the grass on the steeply sloping areas trimmed. I love pointing them out to my daughter when we pass there. We live just a couple of miles away, and go to the river below the dam frequently to collect rocks together. So, she gets to see them quite a bit. Goats rock anyway.
 
HD NATURAL Exotic Vegitation Control.
No chemicals.
Environmentally friendly
Soil enrichment.
Renewable, organic removal equipment
Method already in use by major American cities.
 
...yes, but these will become f e d e r a l goats; they require more and more vegitation for the same old shit.


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You guys use goats? Various cities and towns use sheep up here in Canada.

I'll let you consider for yourself what that says about our respective national characters.:D
 
Thomas Linton said:
HD NATURAL Exotic Vegitation Control.
No chemicals.
Environmentally friendly
Soil enrichment.
Renewable, organic removal equipment
Method already in use by major American cities.
Click to expand...

I know. Problem is around here nobody had complained about the chemicals enough for the power companies to put out the extra bucks for something like that. I'm waiting though
 
Handsome devils them Boers. My Girlfriend and I are looking to relocate from California and have a few acres with some critters. She's settled on Boer goats and pigs. I'm more of a sheep/cattleman myself. Interesting to see who gets their way. Do you milk them, or are they just for meat?
 
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