In this period of high unemployment and layoff’s, my hometown of Mesa, Arizona has determined that jobs once performed
by humans can be better accomplished by goats.
Mesa leases 80 goats to eat weeds
The city is contracting with a local company, the Arizona Herdsman Eco Goats, which has already sent 10 goats
to start chewing on 30 acres of weeds and brush at its water reclamation plant in northwest Mesa, north of Loop 202.The $10,000 six-month contract is aimed at freeing up city crews to take on other responsibilities at the plant,
instead of dealing with the invasive foliage on a hard terrain.
The Utilities Director has a point:
“Obviously with the lack of burning fossil fuels and creating pollution that way and no noise pollution or fumes,
no risk of fuel spills and goats eating biodegradable waste, there’s no material being used considered harmful
to the environment,” Satter said.
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“Obviously with the lack of burning fossil fuels...there’s no material being used considered harmful" WRONG!
General_Confusion (Diary) Wednesday, January 14th at 4:08PM EST (link)WRONG!
It is a knownfact(tm) that farm animals will end all life on this planet.
It is reckless of Mr. Satter to employ these CO2 generating planet killing machines without the cap and trade mechanism in place! Until a fee can be assessed on these goats we will ALL die!
BTW, I know cows are going to assessed at $175, does anyone know what the goat fee will be?
Trust me, the municipality here is not staffed by the best and brightest.
phxg (Diary) Wednesday, January 14th at 4:24PM EST (link)nt
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
“Obviously with the lack of burning fossil fuels...there’s no material being used considered harmful" WRONG!
General_Confusion (Diary) Wednesday, January 14th at 4:08PM EST (link)WRONG!
It is a knownfact(tm) that farm animals will end all life on this planet.
It is reckless of Mr. Satter to employ these CO2 generating planet killing machines without the cap and trade mechanism in place! Until a fee can be assessed on these goats we will ALL die!
BTW, I know cows are going to assessed at $175, does anyone know what the goat fee will be?
Rent a goat for $2000 a year
zuiko (Diary) Wednesday, January 14th at 4:15PM EST (link)Government sure knows how to shop around for the best deal.
Besides the price, they are bound to be disappointed in how this works out. Goats are pretty picky and will not eat weeds that they don’t like the taste of. They also just love to eat the leaves and bark off trees (killing the tree in the process). They are not exactly a great replacement for a brush cutter.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman
I think you are mistaken about this.
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:34AM EST (link)Having a large herd of goats, I guess I have some level of experience. They don’t eat bark nor kill any tree if the tree is above their head. There are only a couple of weeds that goats won’t eat, one of them being thistle. I understand they can be trained to eat those, if one spends some time on it, as they are very high in nutrients in their young stage.
And I know from publications that one of the scourges of the west is leafy spurge (I think I have that right) and that goats think of it as caviar.
I won’t vouch for the price paid, but if includes herding responsibilities, it might not be as bad as it looks. I am assuming right of way is not fenced for livestock.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
This approach has a been used before
1SGinTN (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:48AM EST (link)Don’t know the final verdict on its effectiveness. The Army once used goats to control the vegetation on top of the ammo storage bunkers within the secure storage areas, might still do it for all I know. Goats don’t need a security clearance.
Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil
They will eat bark
zuiko (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 12:45PM EST (link)Depends on the tree. Smooth bark is tasty and they will certainly eat it. I have a dead tree with no bark on it (that they could reach) that will attest to that fact. There are quite a few weeds they won’t touch unless they got nothing better to eat. Once when the trees have no leaves they can reach will they eat a lot of weeds. As weed removal devices goats are highly overrated… unless they are starved and have no alternative, anyway. They won’t even eat my burdock.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman
I'll tell you the problem with the goats
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:43AM EST (link)They are lazy American goats, We need hardworking goats from south of the border, they will do the job for less and won’t complain.
I don’t want to hear about any “laws”,
There are no illegal goats!
Animal values don’t stop at the border!
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle