Comments on: Goats on DOT payroll? http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/01/goatmowers/ Providing Ecosystem Science and Information Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:10:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Woodrow Albin http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/01/goatmowers/comment-page-1/#comment-6988 Woodrow Albin Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:29:23 +0000 http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/01/goatmowers/#comment-6988 Goats are cheap, what's the big deal if a coyote eats a few? California is using goats to control brush near developments to reduce wildfire hazard. Watched them do it on ABC News. Using goats or sheep to mow and control weeds will work great and protect other reptiles like snakes,also frogs, fawns, ground nesting birds from mower blades and wheels. Get a cow with a calf and the cow will keep the coyotes out of the fenced area. I have seen cows chase coyotes. My cousin in South Dakota has 500 cow/calf pairs, have never had coyote trouble and they have plenty of them, or they did until a couple years ago when scabies (not rabies) put a big dent on them. Goats are cheap, what’s the big deal if a coyote eats a few? California is using goats to control brush near developments to reduce wildfire hazard. Watched them do it on ABC News. Using goats or sheep to mow and control weeds will work great and protect other reptiles like snakes,also frogs, fawns, ground nesting birds from mower blades and wheels.

Get a cow with a calf and the cow will keep the coyotes out of the fenced area. I have seen cows chase coyotes. My cousin in South Dakota has 500 cow/calf pairs, have never had coyote trouble and they have plenty of them, or they did until a couple years ago when scabies (not rabies) put a big dent on them.

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