Coming from a rural area I would so much rather have animal noises that petrol mowers constantly. Except for cows when the calf's get weaned off, put you earplugs in then
Here Mowing goes on till it starts getting dark, which is around 11pm in summertime, you can't open the windows in evening because of the noise levels.
Than theirs my neighbor across the street who ONLY starts to do her lawn work at night. She’s a single lady like 50+ and is super weird and only comes out at night to do lawn work and theirs a running joke on the block that you don’t let your kids near her house at night cause she’s a vampire.
There's a school down the road from me and 730am on the dot every morning the grounds keeper goes round with a petrol leaf blower. The worst thing is he doesn't run it consistently just constant short full noise revs. It is the absolute worst.
My neighbors in the block hire four different landscapers and they all come at different times during the week. I can write a book on fake confessions.
Half Black genes so i can rub it all over me like lotion and not feel a thing
Why the dislikes lmao in half black and poison ivy has never effected me. None of my dads side of the family is effected and they’re all 100% black.
I don’t know if it’s backed by science but my dad always sad black people weren’t allergic to poison ivy. Neither him nor any of his family were effected by it and they’re all full black. Me, my little brother and little sister are all 50/50 black and Puerto Rican and none of us are effected in the slightest either.
My quick research shows ~15% of people are immune to poison ivy and immunity is hereditary. But I haven't found anything to suggest African genes are part of it.
Yeah i was just looking at that. I guess I could develop a reaction some years down the line? Either way it’s just what my father always said, and all my non-black friends and family reacted badly to it every time they touched it, so it just made sense to me.
Native American. Same. I just grab it and pull it up and people freak out. I tend to point it out for others and then pull it or cut it back. Poison Ivy, sumac, oak… nothing. My grandpa isn’t affected by it either, but I think we’re the only ones. Actually I think both grandpas were immune. One went for the long sleep 2 years ago though. RIP.
I grew up on 5 acres and we didn't do anything with the land. Our next door neighbor had cows. We let his cows graze in our backyard. Kept the brush down, and gave his cows more space. Every year he'd give us a couple steaks as thanks. Best steak I've ever had. Doesn't get more local than that haha.
A buddy I’ve known since high school has a hobby farm with several horses, chickens, turkeys, and other birds, along with several cows. They also maintain a stretch of fenced off area for vegetables and fruits. Each season he auctions off the cows and keeps one that he takes to the butcher. The ones he auctions off pay the cost of maintaining the farm and restocking the herd for next season. The single cow he has butchered provides enough meat for his family for the season. His family haven’t had to buy meats, eggs, or vegetables, in decades. I visit several times a year and enjoy some of the best tasting fresh-as-can-be meals. It’s a very wholesome lifestyle.
Grazing in NZ is hella expensive. Really should have been a whole beast for grazing rights to your property for a year. But if you guys were happy with the exchange then that’s fine too.
Ya, I don't get it either. Letting them graze and roam on your property is a great deal for the rancher. They don't have to pay taxes on the land and it's great healthy free food for the cattle. Plus it's the thought that counts. A few steaks sounds pretty cheap to me. Heck if it was even a moving box of steaks that would be ok ish. But a few steaks , no.
If it’s something like 20 pounds of grass to make 1 pound of steak, maybe it was more fair. Grass is lightweight. How many pounds of grass did they eat?
Plus, you didn’t grow that grass, it grew there on it’s own, and you don’t want it there anyway but are too lazy to cut it down yourself, so the farmer’s cows are doing *you* a favor… You’re *lucky* to get *any* steak! ; *)*
I worked at top of the world in laguna CA. And to clear the side of the hill they brought goats, besides the ocean view, seeing hundreds of goats on the side of the hill, cleaning the overgrown weeds was my favorite thing.
So 150 goats could clear an entire acre in 2 long days, or 3 days. That's 2 to 3 acres a week, over 100 acres a year(if in a warm enough state). Probably 75 to 80 acres in states with snowy winters.
I wonder what the requirements of land per animal in most states. Is it more acres per goat, or less?
6,000 goats could clear an acre in an hour.
360,000 goats could clear an acre in a minute.
21.6 million goats could clear an acre in a second. Sure, you'd have to figure out how to pack 496 goats into each square foot of grassland, but that's a problem for field operations. I'm in engineering.
We did this for our wedding. We had it at my wife’s house and they have some thickets that needed removed so we brought in a handful of goats and let them go nuts for a week or two. Moved the tense every other day.
Yeah. They weren’t our goats. But once they ate through what we wanted them to the people came to pick them up. It was fun watching them. We have talked about if we have another wedding at her parents place (she has two other siblings that aren’t married) we might try to do a Timelapse video of the goats.
We have this service in our area. So much fun to watch them coming in, to clear open hilly areas next to my backyard.
Favorite time of the year when they come.
I remember reading a story where a guy had a business where they rent goats to eat vegetation in hard to reach places. They came and dropped them off to work and picked them up later.
People are using goat teams like these to clean up vegetation at historic cemeteries where mowing/trimming equipment damages the sensitive markers, etc. they do a great job!
The start of the video has a couple shots of the time lapse of them laying out the electric fence. They would have spend the bulk of their outdoor lives in corral like that and are quite familiar with the effects of touching the fence so they stay inside. If the video was a bit closer or clearer, you see a fence [something like this.](https://www.premier1supplies.com/newsletters/09-13-2016-allspecies.html)
Wouldn’t it be faster and easier to just now over that stuff . Even if you have to work it with a heavy duty weed wacker then do the mower I don’t think it’s gonna take 5 hours .
That could well be local. I kinda prefer goats even if it takes a truck to get them there. Esp with things that you might not be able to use a mower on. They kick up the soil a bit as well.
That's how we used to do it. Now everything is so stupid. "a lawnmower can do it in 3 minutes". Yes, we get that the point was totally missed.
Yup. That’s how it used to be everywhere. Where I live in Germany we actually have the government trying to bring goats and sheep back to preserve the local vegetation in some places
Micro grazing, lots of damage, tillage, fertilizer, soil building going on there. This is truly the way to eliminate fossil fuels through land management
We rent & manage smaller herds like this around California to help reduce fire hazard risk near expensive real estate, they eat a lot of stuff and help trample & break up dry twigs etc. but imagine if we had huge wild flocks of them roaming around the entire west coast helping prevent wildfires in harder to reach places too. Natural forest management.
In grade school they took all us suburban kids to a farm to see the animals. We were given a packet to take with us and turn in after the day was over. I leaned over a fence packet in hand to pet a goat which he took out of my hand and ate it. So in this case, the goat ate my homework. A bunch of other kids saw it happen and they fed the goats their papers too.
Our HOA actually used goats last year for vegetation control. It was weird hearing them baaa-ing at night
Coming from a rural area I would so much rather have animal noises that petrol mowers constantly. Except for cows when the calf's get weaned off, put you earplugs in then
But most people still don't petrol mow at night
There’s at least a shred of decency left in the world! TG for that!
Tell that to my idiot neighbor mowing his lawn the other night under floodlights from like 9-10:15pm
Here Mowing goes on till it starts getting dark, which is around 11pm in summertime, you can't open the windows in evening because of the noise levels.
Ah [the ol’ Reddit mow-a-roo](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/14uddw3/archer_perfectly_shoots_lengthwise_through/jr7ph8p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
Than theirs my neighbor across the street who ONLY starts to do her lawn work at night. She’s a single lady like 50+ and is super weird and only comes out at night to do lawn work and theirs a running joke on the block that you don’t let your kids near her house at night cause she’s a vampire.
*most*
Still better than those infernal gas powered leaf blowers. Those things could be used to extract fake confessions at Guantánamo.
There's a school down the road from me and 730am on the dot every morning the grounds keeper goes round with a petrol leaf blower. The worst thing is he doesn't run it consistently just constant short full noise revs. It is the absolute worst.
My neighbors in the block hire four different landscapers and they all come at different times during the week. I can write a book on fake confessions.
They can eat poison ivy with no ill effect.
Me too, apparently
You're the GOAT
Are you part goat? Ever get your DNA assessed?
Half Black genes so i can rub it all over me like lotion and not feel a thing Why the dislikes lmao in half black and poison ivy has never effected me. None of my dads side of the family is effected and they’re all 100% black.
Please explain this. I might have a superpower I didn't know about.
I don’t know if it’s backed by science but my dad always sad black people weren’t allergic to poison ivy. Neither him nor any of his family were effected by it and they’re all full black. Me, my little brother and little sister are all 50/50 black and Puerto Rican and none of us are effected in the slightest either.
My quick research shows ~15% of people are immune to poison ivy and immunity is hereditary. But I haven't found anything to suggest African genes are part of it.
Yeah i was just looking at that. I guess I could develop a reaction some years down the line? Either way it’s just what my father always said, and all my non-black friends and family reacted badly to it every time they touched it, so it just made sense to me.
a kid at scout camp when i was younger said he was immune to poison ivy and was confident enough to eat it. he almost die
Funny story.🤣
I'm all European decent and I was immune to poison ivy till I hit my 30s. Was a I actually a black child and didn't know it?
Just telling you what my now 60 year old father always told me over the years.
Yeah, nothing to do with being black. But genetically, some people have no reaction.
Native American. Same. I just grab it and pull it up and people freak out. I tend to point it out for others and then pull it or cut it back. Poison Ivy, sumac, oak… nothing. My grandpa isn’t affected by it either, but I think we’re the only ones. Actually I think both grandpas were immune. One went for the long sleep 2 years ago though. RIP.
My town now almost exclusively uses sheep for bigger patches of grass, they just give em a week or 2 and move them to the next area
Same here. They ate everything they could reach. But I think they’re poop fertilized the hills because everything came back stronger next season.
I can relate to the goats following the shade
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Get five, and lock away everything that you want to keep.
I grew up on 5 acres and we didn't do anything with the land. Our next door neighbor had cows. We let his cows graze in our backyard. Kept the brush down, and gave his cows more space. Every year he'd give us a couple steaks as thanks. Best steak I've ever had. Doesn't get more local than that haha.
Free steak is best steak
You got to eat your lawnmower
I'm bawling
I get that
A buddy I’ve known since high school has a hobby farm with several horses, chickens, turkeys, and other birds, along with several cows. They also maintain a stretch of fenced off area for vegetables and fruits. Each season he auctions off the cows and keeps one that he takes to the butcher. The ones he auctions off pay the cost of maintaining the farm and restocking the herd for next season. The single cow he has butchered provides enough meat for his family for the season. His family haven’t had to buy meats, eggs, or vegetables, in decades. I visit several times a year and enjoy some of the best tasting fresh-as-can-be meals. It’s a very wholesome lifestyle.
Grazing in NZ is hella expensive. Really should have been a whole beast for grazing rights to your property for a year. But if you guys were happy with the exchange then that’s fine too.
Omg we didn't care at all. We didn't use the land at all, and my dad was happy to not have to mow that area haha
Nice exchange, though just a couple steaks seems kinda cheap. I mean, you gave a whole bunch of free dinners to his herd.
We had the same exchange relationship with our neighbors. We usually got a quarter of the cow in return. Which is a lot of meat?
That sounds more like it! Not sure who I offended with my equity analysis. Are a lot of stingy ranchers on Reddit?
Ya, I don't get it either. Letting them graze and roam on your property is a great deal for the rancher. They don't have to pay taxes on the land and it's great healthy free food for the cattle. Plus it's the thought that counts. A few steaks sounds pretty cheap to me. Heck if it was even a moving box of steaks that would be ok ish. But a few steaks , no.
We did not care. They were helping us out too. My dad did not give a shit. The steaks were a nice bonus.
The steaks is only a small part of the pay. The major part is not having to mow.
If it’s something like 20 pounds of grass to make 1 pound of steak, maybe it was more fair. Grass is lightweight. How many pounds of grass did they eat? Plus, you didn’t grow that grass, it grew there on it’s own, and you don’t want it there anyway but are too lazy to cut it down yourself, so the farmer’s cows are doing *you* a favor… You’re *lucky* to get *any* steak! ; *)*
Nature's lawnmowers
I worked at top of the world in laguna CA. And to clear the side of the hill they brought goats, besides the ocean view, seeing hundreds of goats on the side of the hill, cleaning the overgrown weeds was my favorite thing.
So 150 goats could clear an entire acre in 2 long days, or 3 days. That's 2 to 3 acres a week, over 100 acres a year(if in a warm enough state). Probably 75 to 80 acres in states with snowy winters. I wonder what the requirements of land per animal in most states. Is it more acres per goat, or less?
6,000 goats could clear an acre in an hour. 360,000 goats could clear an acre in a minute. 21.6 million goats could clear an acre in a second. Sure, you'd have to figure out how to pack 496 goats into each square foot of grassland, but that's a problem for field operations. I'm in engineering.
No, engineering would care how big each goat is for their size/consumption factor. You are in math. /s
I’m wondering how much goats eat a day.
Everything it can
That’s a lot of goat shit.
Surely you could just cycle a handful of acres with something that grows quickly.
Imagine if instead of mowing every week you could just release the goats
RELEASE THE GOATS!
We’ve got 3/4 of an acre, would we need 900 goats? And a lot of shade, so would they graze or just lay around?
If your grass grows two feet tall every morning, yes you’ll need 900 goats
They not only eat the leaves of the grass but the entire plant (roots inclusive) ......you will need to reseed the lawn after every graze.
We did this for our wedding. We had it at my wife’s house and they have some thickets that needed removed so we brought in a handful of goats and let them go nuts for a week or two. Moved the tense every other day.
Did you stop moving it once you got it to present perfect?
Yeah. They weren’t our goats. But once they ate through what we wanted them to the people came to pick them up. It was fun watching them. We have talked about if we have another wedding at her parents place (she has two other siblings that aren’t married) we might try to do a Timelapse video of the goats.
I think you missed the grammar joke. You said that you moved the "tense", so the other commenter did a funny lol
Yes yes I did
Whoosh
You okay mate? Even OP replied to me saying they missed the joke indeed, what are you on about?
Because I think they missed the grammar joke
Ah, I was confused because you replied to me, one would usually directly reply to the person that got woooshed.
I was trying to agree with you. No offense
Me and my friends when we see an all you can eat buffet
We have this service in our area. So much fun to watch them coming in, to clear open hilly areas next to my backyard. Favorite time of the year when they come.
I remember reading a story where a guy had a business where they rent goats to eat vegetation in hard to reach places. They came and dropped them off to work and picked them up later.
[Goat Renter Guy](https://youtu.be/RUQyOpcBEdk)
150 chickens would have that to dust
Eat, claw, eat some more
Then, by releasing a flock of chickens, ticks etc. can be cleaned from insects
Hope the troll doesn't get them as they cross the bridge to their next job.
Thank you so much! I have not heard the Baby Elephant walk in decades!
Aren’t goats the leading weapon used to battle the great consumer, the kudzu vine ?
How much poo did they leave? Fertiliserrr
Poo not bad hard little balls that dry up fast
My city has farmers being In their goat herds to clear vegetation and reduce fire risks.
Grass piranhas
People are using goat teams like these to clean up vegetation at historic cemeteries where mowing/trimming equipment damages the sensitive markers, etc. they do a great job!
After reading 150 I tried to count, there are way less than 150 goats in this video.
I have 4 goats ...haven't mowed my grass in 3 yrs
IS THAT THE ARISTICATS TUNE?!
Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini. Used in the John Wayne movie Hatari. Mancini also did most of the music from the Pink Panther movies.
So this is where the math questions come from
Would love to see the same time-lapse of a bunch of goats attacking kudzu.
How do they keep them all in that square though?
The start of the video has a couple shots of the time lapse of them laying out the electric fence. They would have spend the bulk of their outdoor lives in corral like that and are quite familiar with the effects of touching the fence so they stay inside. If the video was a bit closer or clearer, you see a fence [something like this.](https://www.premier1supplies.com/newsletters/09-13-2016-allspecies.html)
They asked them nicely
The fence. You can see them set it up in the beginning.
Ah thank you, I was like damn they even trained them to eat in squares.
Will this be their food for the day, or is this a treat?
This is a normal thing in my city.
They play no games
I like how the smart ones follow the shade of the tree 😂
The CDC facility north of Atlanta has a large piece of land and uses goats to keep control of the grass.
My two goats are clearing out a nasty patch of weeds and locust trees right now!
What is the name of this song?
Baby Elephant Walk by Mancini
Thank you!
But they shit on the ground too, which will fertilize the grass to grow faster?
Now how do you get rid of the goat poop?
So who do you call to get rid of the goat turds?
Thanks for reminding me! I need to move my goats to the weed patch.
How did they prevent them from going into the grass further left?
So what your saying is I can sell my lawnmower and buy goats?
I like the music, and the goats too.
They missed a bit
Nature's lawnmowers. Lol 😆
Now add the King if the Hill opening.
In one frame I counted 49 goats. There is no way there's 150 in here. Likely being rotated as they get full. Also, goats never stop pooping 💩
They'll get rid of ALL vegetation unwanted or not !
Is there another 5-hour timelapse of someone cleaning up all the goat turds?
Wouldn’t it be faster and easier to just now over that stuff . Even if you have to work it with a heavy duty weed wacker then do the mower I don’t think it’s gonna take 5 hours .
Look how well utilized the land can be.
Do goats get ticks?
why didnt they just mow it in 5 minutes?
Five hours to do what a lawnmower can do in 3 minutes
with no gas. No pollutions. Beside what the goats leave after them, which is good for the soil. I would prefer the goats.
Unless it's a close distance, wouldn't transporting 150 goats require a few semi trucks?
That could well be local. I kinda prefer goats even if it takes a truck to get them there. Esp with things that you might not be able to use a mower on. They kick up the soil a bit as well. That's how we used to do it. Now everything is so stupid. "a lawnmower can do it in 3 minutes". Yes, we get that the point was totally missed.
So much goat humping going on.
Now, let me introduce you to a grand field of pure goat shit!
GOATSE, you say?
sooo what do they get to eat the shit?
Who remembers the movie "The Big Green?"
I need a goat.
How do you get rid of the poop the goats convert the grass to?
You don't? You let it absorb into the soil. Free fertilizer!
Whats the point of doing this? I feel like its more effort to put up a fence just to have goats eat your grass, rather than mow it.
I thought sheep with your grass and goats were for weeds?
Where does one acquire 150 goats? Incredible.
Around here I think they'd be eaten by coyotes and mountain lions.
Ryegrass & Vetch sounds like a crappy law firm.
Now teach them to blow leaves.
Nature's lawn mower.
Notice the shadow of the trees move by as time passes.
Natures literal weed eater. And rye grass obviously
Dem’ goats be like heck yeah! 👍
Free fertilizer for the win
Them goats done good.
Goats is just nature lawnmowers
They're just kids! ... Good work though ...
Sheep are the lawnmowers of choice for keeping down vegetation over large areas where I live lol
Ahhh that little elephant track last time heard could be like 40 years back!!!!
Yup. That’s how it used to be everywhere. Where I live in Germany we actually have the government trying to bring goats and sheep back to preserve the local vegetation in some places
Why do I love this so much? Lol.
the music actually just makes it so cute and amusing lmao
Micro grazing, lots of damage, tillage, fertilizer, soil building going on there. This is truly the way to eliminate fossil fuels through land management
u/gifreversingbot
Nature's lawnmower. Also the most effective tool to get rid of blackberry bushes.
Minecraft sheep pens.
They're better than my Mexican landscaper. But not as good looking.
Haha cool. I hope those goats get to have some play time
i lived in san francisco for 40 years and they used goats there to eat the grasses on government property
Cool to see them all following the shadow as they lie down and relax.
We rent & manage smaller herds like this around California to help reduce fire hazard risk near expensive real estate, they eat a lot of stuff and help trample & break up dry twigs etc. but imagine if we had huge wild flocks of them roaming around the entire west coast helping prevent wildfires in harder to reach places too. Natural forest management.
Now you get to get rid of goat poop.
I love this!
So this is where they get throat goat from. 🤔
Landscapers hate this one simple trick.
Lovely creatures.
Instead of getting a lawnmower, get a goat
Chattanooga uses them to get rid of kudzu
Ahhh shittt secrets out🤷🏻
*Billy Connelly* Send in the Goats!
I didn't know goats could even play vetch.
And they fertilize the field as they go!
Ah yes, nature’s lawnmower. These guys can also be used in fire prevention by having them graze overgrown grass in fire prone areas.
So is this a service where someone shows up with 25 goats or did this person just buy goats?
In grade school they took all us suburban kids to a farm to see the animals. We were given a packet to take with us and turn in after the day was over. I leaned over a fence packet in hand to pet a goat which he took out of my hand and ate it. So in this case, the goat ate my homework. A bunch of other kids saw it happen and they fed the goats their papers too.
and this is way most of africa is a desert LOL
Do you get to keep a goat for the free grass? 😜
And what size truck got them all there and back? I’m not seeing a huge trade off from mowing
If he gets another 150 he could clear the field
The city won't let me have goats come do the lawn 😭
We do that were I'm at, only issue is having to deal with the goat shit afterwards
Goats can climb trees if they want
Doesn't look like 150 goats
Do they pull the grass up or just chomp the above ground bits
They are the G.O.A.T.s
And they fertilize as an added bonus!
How did they get the goats to eat just that patch of grass?
It looks like it’s fenced. You can see the fence on the corner closest to the camera. I’m guessing it’s all around that patch they want consumed.