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Firebreaks N Goats

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37Cheif had a thread on firebreak a couple of days ago. I noticed this article on ABCNews about using goats to clear a hillside in Los Angeles a few miles north of where he lives. $3500 vs $7500 if they used mechanical weedeaters
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5828800
They touch on using goats to create firebreaks Too. I read a book once about Mediterranean area history and how goats changed things. Kept cedars of Lebanon forests and other vegetation types from regenerating
 
My neighbor's goats sure do a good job of keeping my blackberries and shrubs from growing. You could write a book about our friendship and how the goats changed things. Made an accidental discovery though. We had a colt get hurt this summer and have to be kept in a stall and small paddock. Tried a goat to keep him company and it didn't click. A friend has sheep and had a lamb buck that was constantly getting caught in the fence and was getting ready for the butcher. Took him home and put him in the stall with the colt and it was an instant match. He eats grass and weeds and leaves grapes, berries, and shrubs alone, and can't stand the goats. When they try to come through the fence, he keeps them out. Pretty cheap upkeep for a confined area. Hard to believe how much someone is getting to enjoy free feed. Only in California I guess.
 
You got to remember one thing about goats. They are survivors. In the third world counties they feed most of the people, One thing for sure you have to be smarter than they are. I milked a large herd for several years. Excellent milk, cheese and meat. If you do not feed them they will find something to eat some how. I have seen them used to clear brush and posion Ivy. Put them in a Quarter section with some good guard dogs and tey will clean it out. gitrib
 
Off topic on goats.
Anyone try and drink goats milk after they've been eating poison ivy? Heard its a natural way to build up an immunity to poison ivy sort of like using local honey to reduce the effects of pollen/allergens.
 
Yes it works. Had a friend in Arkansas who could not walk by Poison Ivy without getting it. They got a bunch of goats to clean up the poison ivy and he started drinking the milk and after a while the poison did not bother him. gitrib
 
The goat's are used around here also for eating dry weeds. I have never seen them in operation, but think it would be a problem keeping them in one place. Not too worried about them putting me out of a job. I just bid on a job that would be just right for goats it is a industrial building sight about 8 acres fenced Stan
 
When I was much younger. My Dad had gotten a goat for the goat milk. Seems he needed it cause of some medical reason I think it was.
Anyway a cold winter was here and dad and I went around to each outside window and put plastic on them to keep the cold out.
One evening we came home and found that dang goat had some how gotten out of what we thought was a secure area for him. lol The goat had gone around the house to each window and stood on her hind legs and eaten away most the plastic off every window at our home!.. Dad was going to shoot the goat and mom stopped him! So next day he give the goat away and we never had a goat again!..lol
When I see a goat or two in the field. I can not help but remember those days....Besides that I being the oldest had to milk that goat everyday for my dad and I hated that goat. lol lol
 
I have a problem with russian olive on my property. We have 3 pygmy goats. Around their barn, the russian olive is nonexistent. The farther away I get, the more russian olive I have. They eat it right to the ground. They pass up pretty good grass to do it, I guess that's their nature.
 
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