Category: goats

VIDEO: Deputy Leaves Car Door Open, Finds Goats on Roof, Inside Munching Paperwork, ‘Don’t You Eat That!’

A Madison County sheriff’s deputy had a funny run-in with a pair of hoofed hooligans while out serving civil papers one late August Friday morning. Alabama Deputy Casey Thrower had left his cruiser for a mere moment, but returned to find a pair of horned visitors—goats, eager and hungry—atop and inside his patrol vehicle. Though…


Yorba Linda Employs Goats to Prevent Wildfires

YORBA LINDA, Calif.—The City of Yorba Linda is utilizing goat grazing to clear hillside weeds on land maintained by the city to remove plant fuel that can feed wildfires. The goats will be clearing 22 acres surrounding Bryant Ranch, as part of a weed abatement project, from June 1 to mid-July. “While there are many…


Aesop’s Fables: The Two Goats

Two goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each…


You go, goats: Using goats for lawn grooming

Syndy Clark’s cleanup crew munched on brush on an early morning in June at a residence in rural Pekin, Illinois. Clark’s goats were clearing brush on 2 acres. They already had eaten their way through 1 acre of the 2 acres they were tasked with in the previous week and had perhaps another week to…


Herds of Goats Help Protect City From Fire Season

The city of Yorba Linda, California, has commissioned herds of goats to help mow down weeds in preparation for the upcoming fire season. The bearded mammals will patrol the city’s West Bastanchury site from May 19 to May 30 under a $13,000 pilot program approved by the city council on May 4. The goats come…