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Goats for rent - MBB - 10-13-2018
Hello,
Is there anyone on the east side of the island that rents goats for weed control?
Mahalo
RE: Goats for rent - dan d - 10-13-2018
It dont work. Only horses,or cattle. I tried in waimea. U gotta dodge da paddies tho
Aloha
HPP
RE: Goats for rent - Ronni - 11-01-2018
Sheep eat grass goats eat shrubs. You mean weed shrubs?
veronica moore
RE: Goats for rent - MBB - 11-02-2018
Mahalo for both response, it's not weed scrubs, it's viney weeds like Maile Pilau. It's invading my lot from empty lot next door, don't like using herbicide.
Aloha
RE: Goats for rent - kalakoa - 11-03-2018
invading my lot from empty lot next door, don't like using herbicide.
Apply the herbicide next door....
RE: Goats for rent - ElysianWort - 11-03-2018
I have a neighbor with a goat and a sheep.
They both will NOT eat the Maile pilau. Not surprising because it is, well...pilau.
The goats will eat all your banana plants, ti plants, strip the bark on your fruit trees and eat anything else that you value. Sheep are a bit better for weed control because they wond ravage everything. Goats and sheep both do like honohono grass and the prickly mimosa sleeping grass. Both bad news weeds.
RE: Goats for rent - dan d - 11-04-2018
Cut and mow back and put chips on all those areas
HPP
RE: Goats for rent - dayna - 11-15-2018
My goats love the Maile Pilau.
But yeah, goats will eat all the things you DON'T want them to eat first. Then move onto the stuff you want gone. haha
And my sheep DO graze up like goats. They love bananas, palms, citrus trees.... ugh.
Dayna
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RE: Goats for rent - Osorio - 11-16-2018
I've had the same idea a while back. But then some people said the same thing as here. Goats only resort to eating weeds when nothing else is available. They don't mind it, but they have a taste for nicer things first. haha