Dr. Pizza, is this you?

[dawp]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/grazing-goats-clean-capitol-hill-cemetery-dc-19890029

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10017796.html

 

[T9D]

They will poop on graves

 

[dawp]

it's not like the dead would give a shit.

 

[brainhulk]

they use goats here to clear hillside brush before fire season. They put up electric fences and let the goats go at it.

 

[DrPizza]

I'd love to do that with my goats during the summer. $$ for me, free food for the goats, someone else's weed problem taken care of. win-win-win. All it takes is a $100 solar fence charger, ($200 for a very good one), a ground rod, ($10), fiberglass fence posts every 8 or so feet ($1.19 each), and galvanized or aluminum wire ($15 for 1/4 mile of fencing wire - just bought a spool about 2 weeks ago.)

 

[jaedaliu]

Maybe you should get a really wide brimmed hat, a sheepherder's crook, and forgo the fence. You can spend the idyllic days of summer surrounded by fainting goats and a thermos of lemonade.

 

[Red Storm]

Great way to cut grass.

 

[esquared]

I'd love to do that with my goats during the summer. $$ for me, free food for the goats, someone else's weed problem taken care of. win-win-win. All it takes is a $100 solar fence charger, ($200 for a very good one), a ground rod, ($10), fiberglass fence posts every 8 or so feet ($1.19 each), and galvanized or aluminum wire ($15 for 1/4 mile of fencing wire - just bought a spool about 2 weeks ago.)

There is this company in the bay area that does this.
http://www.goatsrus.com/what_we_do.htm

In fact I just saw them a couple weeks ago driving home from work, eating the brush from the side of the highway.

I think its a great thing they do. No soil damage from pesticides, and the brush gets taken down before fire season.

 

[Svnla]

So Dr. Pizza - Administrator, Elite Member, and now Goats Shepherd? That would be cool, unique, and being green.

 

[Tim]

they use goats here to clear hillside brush before fire season. They put up electric fences and let the goats go at it.

I wonder if any electric fences with a goat that couldn't get away have started any fires themselves?

 

[FelixDeCat]

mod callout thread!

reported :awe:

 

[edro]

 

[dawp]

Maybe you should get a really wide brimmed hat, a sheepherder's crook, and forgo the fence. You can spend the idyllic days of summer surrounded by fainting goats and a thermos of lemonade.

are you trying to make Dr. Pizza into Gandalf?

 

[OutHouse]

call out thread!!!!

 

[jaedaliu]

are you trying to make Dr. Pizza into Gandalf?

I was thinking hippy, but Gandalf sounds more fun.