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California firefighters are enlisting help from some unusual allies to prevent more deadly wildfires from ripping across the state -- goats.
The Ventura County Fire Department is releasing hundreds of goats next week north of Los Angeles to eat dead brush that could become fuel for a fires.
"They'll eat until we like the way the landscape looks, and then we move them to another area," Captain Ken VanWig, who oversees the department's vegetation management program, said in an interview. "They're very effective."
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:22PM (6 children)
Goats will eat, or try to eat basically anything. Grass, shrubs, trees, weeds, tin cans, cardboard, clothing, car tires...
Leave them in an area and all that will be left is the trash they found inedible.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:30PM
https://www.goats-in-the-backyard.com/do-goats-eat-tin-cans.html [goats-in-the-backyard.com]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:27PM (1 child)
Goats don't actually eat tin cans, the just nibble at the paper label.
OTOH, they did eat the plastic top to my mother's car, and a bunch of fiberglass insulation that she was installing.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:05PM
They must not have taste buds. Or pain nerves. Or maybe just no brains?
(Score: 4, Funny) by EvilSS on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:18PM
Can I make it fit in my mouth? ---yes---> It's food
\---no---> It's food, find way to make fit.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 08 2019, @09:10PM
We visited a state park that had a few goats in a pen. To entice the goats to the fence for the kids, I broke off a branch of something or other and dangled it over the fence - it worked, of course, 3 seconds later all the goats were at the fence munching on the branch.
A few seconds later we walked around a corner in the fence and, I noticed a "do not feed the goats" sign, printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled to the fence in a plastic sleeve. The goats followed us around the corner, reached up over the fence and proceeded to eat the sign, plastic cover and all.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:25AM
Knew a guy who was a wildlife biologist and worked in the Middle East. He said there are feral goats in the Saudi desert, where NOTHING grows -- seems the goats survive by eating newspaper that blows out of the cities.
Goats can be taught to prefer some particular plant, but when they get hungry, there's pretty much nothing they won't try to eat.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.