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Post by mogal on Feb 13, 2018 20:10:21 GMT
Did anybody see the recent episode of Rural Heritage on RFD-TV about the men in Iowa who have started a business and franchising it using goats to clear brush on contract?
Their website is www.goatsonthego.com. Very clever business plan. Wouldn't cost too much for start up for an established goatkeeper unless you had to buy a trailer and truck to pull it to sites. The electric netting fence isn't terribly expensive.
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Post by here to stay on Feb 14, 2018 3:30:51 GMT
That's the main purpose of my goats. They turned a pasture full of reed grass into putting green. They stick their noses through the fence and keep the weeds at bay 6 inches beyond the fence.
Their latest project has been the "Rose of Death." It was an unnamed climbing cultivar that never grew in the way I expected, forming a dense thicket instead of climbing. It's main attribute turned out to be the worst thorns in a leafless thatch. I am getting rid of it this winter. The goats are munching what I throw over the fence. Thorns are not a hindrance to them.
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Post by mogal on Feb 14, 2018 19:20:49 GMT
As long as we've had goats, our pastures have been improved by the browsing of our goats. Poison ivy, multiflora rose, you name it, they love it. The nice thing too is that they seldom eat enough of potentially poisonous plants at a time to hurt themselves, just keep nibbling a bit each day until they give up the ghost and fertilize as they go.
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