Comments on: Archaic Innovation: Forget Lawn Mowers, Bring In the Goats http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/archaic-innovation-forget-lawn-mowers-bring-in-the-goats.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:38:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Arizona Lanscaping http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/archaic-innovation-forget-lawn-mowers-bring-in-the-goats.html/comment-page-1#comment-250969 Arizona Lanscaping Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:11:51 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=21753#comment-250969 Thanks for sharing this article. While I don't agree with the goats, it's definitely interesting to say the least. Myself? I would have gone with a Xeriscape :) Thanks for sharing this article. While I don’t agree with the goats, it’s definitely interesting to say the least. Myself? I would have gone with a Xeriscape :)

]]> By: jt kaufmann http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/archaic-innovation-forget-lawn-mowers-bring-in-the-goats.html/comment-page-1#comment-246622 jt kaufmann Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:06:50 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=21753#comment-246622 Having had goats myself, they make the perfect rotational pasture mates for horses in that they eat down weeds and allow the grasses to grow through (they are not really interested in the grasses) and then are moved on to another pasture where the horses have eaten all the grass and there is nothing left but overgrown weeds. Neither of these animals destroy the sub soil infrastructure of the grasses but cattle do -- which is why our nations open lands -- having been overtaken by millions of heads of cattle -- have decimated the natural flora and fauna and the delicate grassland balances but isn't is astonishing that the cattle industry insists that it is the wild horse which number in the 20,000 or so thousand range that are responsible and must be removed? Back to the goats...they for years were the the levity in my life as they are comical and spunky and have the sweetest personalities. I hope EcoGoat knows that these sweet creatures need a farrier for hoof trimming every 8 weeks. Nice article...terrific site jtkaufmann Human Factor jtkaufmann@humanfactorinc.com Having had goats myself, they make the perfect rotational pasture mates for horses in that they eat down weeds and allow the grasses to grow through (they are not really interested in the grasses) and then are moved on to another pasture where the horses have eaten all the grass and there is nothing left but overgrown weeds.

Neither of these animals destroy the sub soil infrastructure of the grasses but cattle do — which is why our nations open lands — having been overtaken by millions of heads of cattle — have decimated the natural flora and fauna and the delicate grassland balances but isn’t is astonishing that the cattle industry insists that it is the wild horse which number in the 20,000 or so thousand range that are responsible and must be removed?
Back to the goats…they for years were the the levity in my life as they are comical and spunky and have the sweetest personalities. I hope EcoGoat knows that these sweet creatures need a farrier for hoof trimming every 8 weeks.
Nice article…terrific site
jtkaufmann
Human Factor
jtkaufmann@humanfactorinc.com

]]> By: Mary Kay Colling http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/archaic-innovation-forget-lawn-mowers-bring-in-the-goats.html/comment-page-1#comment-246585 Mary Kay Colling Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:51:55 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=21753#comment-246585 Thanks for including the goat article. I never would have seen it otherwise. It made me smile. My father brought home a goat one fine day to my parents' back yard in the suburbs. (He was getting way up in years.) He claimed he would use the goat for lawn maintenance and the goat poop for fertilizer. It was a little goat. Dad assured my mother that the neighbors would think it was a dog. He must not have considered the climbing factor. Thanks for including the goat article. I never would have seen it otherwise. It made me smile.

My father brought home a goat one fine day to my parents’ back yard in the suburbs. (He was getting way up in years.) He claimed he would use the goat for lawn maintenance and the goat poop for fertilizer. It was a little goat. Dad assured my mother that the neighbors would think it was a dog. He must not have considered the climbing factor.

]]> By: Floyd Hayes http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/archaic-innovation-forget-lawn-mowers-bring-in-the-goats.html/comment-page-1#comment-246541 Floyd Hayes Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:53:07 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=21753#comment-246541 Not a good idea. Goats are mental. They can climb anything and the can and will eat everything . Not a good idea. Goats are mental. They can climb anything and the can and will eat everything .

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