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Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

So Google decided it was the same price to hire a goat herd to eat their grass as it was to have people mow the lawn.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bigMoney/idUS24458641020090504

Who the fuck thought of this idea? Hey don't get me wrong, it seems like a good plan, but seriously... who the fuck thought of it?

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Probably Woodrow Wilson. He had sheep on the lawn of the White House, eating it, and keeping it trim....along with their natural fertilizer....

Posted: May 04 2009 04:04 pm

Somewhere a landscaper is lamenting that Goats took his jahb!

Posted: May 04 2009 04:57 pm

This isn't all that unusual. After the fires here in California, lots of people started using goats for brush control. I was working on a ranch at the time, and we made extra money by going to people's houses and letting the goats eat the dry brush around their houses. Its pretty economical and hey, it works.

Posted: May 04 2009 06:13 pm

also here in TN we have Kudzu problem and they eat that shit up

The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has undertaken a trial program using goats and llamas that graze on the plant. The llamas serve double-duty as defense against predators due to their aggressive nature. Currently the goats are grazing along the Missionary Ridge area in the east of the city

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

SoldierHawk wrote:

This isn't all that unusual. After the fires here in California, lots of people started using goats for brush control. I was working on a ranch at the time, and we made extra money by going to people's houses and letting the goats eat the dry brush around their houses. Its pretty economical and hey, it works.

Can you train goats not to make noise?

I would totally own some goats if they didn't make so much fucking noise. SHUT UP YOU GOATS!!!

Posted: May 04 2009 08:57 pm

They brought in goats a few summers ago to eat up weeds around the lakes and rivers in the county.

Posted: May 04 2009 09:35 pm

Ermac wrote:

also here in TN we have Kudzu problem and they eat that shit up

Could probably use them down here in Georgia as well, damn Japanese superplant.

Posted: May 05 2009 11:21 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Can you train goats not to make noise?

I would totally own some goats if they didn't make so much fucking noise. SHUT UP YOU GOATS!!!

Erm, I don't think so. They usually aren't ALL that noisy though, except when its feeding time. Then they go insane. Other than that though, they don't bleat too terribly much.

At least its not much when you're on a big ranch lol. If you have a small place, I can see how it might get annoying.

Posted: May 05 2009 11:48 am

1) We're in a recession. People are out of work. And Google has the balls to hire goats to mow their lawn instead of people? Fuck them.
2) This isn't impressive. LiveJournal is RUN by a goat. Now that's impressive.

Posted: May 05 2009 12:14 pm

Who's going to do the edging? You can't tell me the goats will all eat the grass right up against fire hydrants and stuff.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: May 05 2009 12:21 pm

You know, you don't pay the goats. You pay the people who keep the goats.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Syd Lexia wrote:

1) We're in a recession. People are out of work. And Google has the balls to hire goats to mow their lawn instead of people? Fuck them.

Y'know, maybe they can hire workers and have them use the old manual lawnmowers you see in old cartoons, to keep their "carbon footprint" down. There was one in an early episode of Simpsons when Bart has a mini golf tourny against one of the Flanders boys. Homer & Ned have a bet over it where the loser's father has to mow the other father's lawn in their wife's Sunday dress. Homer's mower was the old-fashioned kind:

Posted: May 05 2009 08:26 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

1) We're in a recession. People are out of work. And Google has the balls to hire goats to mow their lawn instead of people? Fuck them.

Hey, its not free. The company pays the guy who owns the goats. They just aren't paying a guy who mows the grass. The goatkeeper charges less than the lawn mower. I don't see how that's bad. *shrug*

Posted: May 05 2009 09:00 pm

There are a million lawn care services, its probably the best way to be in buisness for yourself if you got the clients that is.

Posted: May 05 2009 09:00 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

1) We're in a recession. People are out of work. And Google has the balls to hire goats to mow their lawn instead of people? Fuck them.

Hey, its not free. The company pays the guy who owns the goats. They just aren't paying a guy who mows the grass. The goatkeeper charges less than the lawn mower. I don't see how that's bad. *shrug*

They're stealing money from hardworking landscapers by paying the so called "goatmaster" ( a suspect title if there ever was one ) to let the offspring of Shub-Niggurath mosey around the lawn. It's an OUTRAGE! Mad