prichard
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ACE put goats on a nearby dam. No other way to "mow" that slope.
Goats do the darnedest things.
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ACE put goats on a nearby dam. No other way to "mow" that slope.
bunyip
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We bought a place many years ago that was overun with blackberries, we got a goat to get rid of them as blackberries are like triffids and stalk humans and attack when least expected, to keep the goat on check we had him on a chain attached to a large block of concrete, as he got through the blackberries he would strain on the chain and move the block far enough to get at the next bit, took him about 6 months to clear the block.
The chain was about 15' long so he could get some cover in the rain and we went out one morning, there was the concrete block but no goat, a quick look around from the verandah then we heard him bleat, he was up in a tree eating the leaves.
When he finished we sent him to a friends place who had just bought a house and had a lot of weeds and blackberries, he put in a fence about 3' high around a vegetable patch he created and the goat immediately bounded over to get the easy feed, he cleared the fence by about 4" so we reasoned that if we extended the height by about 1' we would be safe, we did that and over he went and cleared it by about 4", this went on until the fence was 6' high and he couldn't get over it, they won't expend more energy than they have to but we did.
he did the rounds of several properties in the area and was well known until someone sold him which we were a bit peeved about, there is always one in the neighbourhood.
The chain was about 15' long so he could get some cover in the rain and we went out one morning, there was the concrete block but no goat, a quick look around from the verandah then we heard him bleat, he was up in a tree eating the leaves.
When he finished we sent him to a friends place who had just bought a house and had a lot of weeds and blackberries, he put in a fence about 3' high around a vegetable patch he created and the goat immediately bounded over to get the easy feed, he cleared the fence by about 4" so we reasoned that if we extended the height by about 1' we would be safe, we did that and over he went and cleared it by about 4", this went on until the fence was 6' high and he couldn't get over it, they won't expend more energy than they have to but we did.
he did the rounds of several properties in the area and was well known until someone sold him which we were a bit peeved about, there is always one in the neighbourhood.