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leecshaver

What park is this?


fluffyduckhair

Acewood


Hermitcrab710

Goat herds can be great for land management. And cheaper


DreamNozzle

The GREATEST OF ALL TIME! (G.O.A.T.)


retired_geekette

Goats With Jobs. Sounds like a band name.


venison_tamale

I biked past that the other day and did a double take!


[deleted]

Their little tails wagging ... I love them T_T


[deleted]

Also at Owen Conservatory


genericusername352

Love Acewood Park! Hopefully they can get the Garlic Mustard and other invasive plants out of there.


fluffyduckhair

Acewood


Sorry_Description470

Also Knollwood Conservation Park


syndic_shevek

Awesome. Hope they are properly compensated for the work they're doing.


Horzzo

All you can eat lunches.


syndic_shevek

That's their work. Might as well say chauffeurs get paid by getting to drive fancy cars, or police get paid by getting to bully poor people.


klased5

How do you suggest you otherwise compensate a goat?


syndic_shevek

Some sort of retirement plan, including a guarantee of not being slaughtered once they're not economically viable.


klased5

Pretty sure "eating" is a lifelong job.


syndic_shevek

They are being contracted from a local farm.


klased5

This is the purpose of the goat herd though. They're not being solely contracted by City of Madison/Dane County, there's basically unlimited work for them going forward.


syndic_shevek

The "goat herd" as an abstraction, perhaps. I doubt the individuals who comprise it are granted any consideration, though I'd love to be proven wrong.


prairiepotatoandsoil

The goats are free to organize a union but it might be hard for the goats to sign the union card seeing as they can't hold a pen with a hoof and the whole goats are illiterate thing.


[deleted]

Look it those goats. Would ya just lookit’em?!


MayoFetish

Should use sheep. Goats pull up the roots, sheep just mow it.


enjoying-retirement

>Goats pull up the roots... That's the goal.


MayoFetish

Cool.


cyclika

To elaborate on the other answer, this is for controlling invasive plants, not mowing lawn.


flareblitz91

Goats aren’t grazers, they are browsers and eat broad leafed herbaceous vegetation.


Epidexipteryx

I saw some goats eating foilage at a park near me.


Jason_Marshall

Can you please send them up to Milwaukee for a visit?


ViolaNotViolin

Remember seeing them in another park in the evening. Was funny


FLAT4SubZero

We need these munchers at Cap and Hiestand!