Idaho goat herder rotates goats for alternative weed control
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Tim Linquist grew up on a cattle ranch and expected to continue the family business. When his father was forced to sell the ranch, Linquist had to reinvent himself. Inspired by his experience during college using goats as weed eaters, he bought 25 does and began to rent them out for brush control (often for fire prevention or noxious weed removal).
Business took off fast among farmers, ranchers, public land managers, homeowners, and even golf club managers looking for an alternative to weed eaters, mowers, and chemicals. After only a year, Linquist bought 225 more does.
Today “We Rent Goats” is a family business. All summer, Tim, his wife Lynda, and their 2 sons, follow the goats from fields to farms to overgrown backyards. Their territory includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada. “Most of the summer we spend out away from home. We travel in a fifth wheel and we’re never home.”
Linquist doesn’t mind the itinerant lifestyle and spending so much time with his herd. “I mean I could sit out here and look at these goats all day… I love it, that’s why I do it.”
We Rent Goats: werentgoats.com/
Original story: faircompanies.c...
The man's living his dream! makes me happy to see people living their dream and succeeding.
What a great example of a symbiotic relationship. Love this!
This man really enjoys his life- this is a good lifestyle and a living$$$$ and being very useful with fire control.
In Europe, the farmers do this all the time. I'm sooo happy that we this practice is being done at home. Excellent video Kirsten.
This was a nice change of pace from your usual features on accommodations and shelters. I've seen a few other businesses renting goats to take car of lawns instead of using a lawnmower. It's a good route to go if you're not interested in a manicured look for your landscape.
You are doing a great job. I love to see goats grazing in free environment.
It's great when you can make a living at something you love.
Very good idea! Much easier on the land than poison. Camels are also great weed eaters. They chow down on weeds that are poisonous to cattle.
Funny enough, when I was a child and we had to cut our grass, I asked my parents: "why don't we just get a sheep for pet? It'll cut our grass AND we can cuddle with it", parents thought i twas a horrible idea, in hindsight, I think I might've been on to something.
sheep are so nasty
The Federal Farmer No, sheep are super sweet and docile! I have seen some brown/black ones that look just like teddy bears
Goats not sheep. You were close Shelby Shum. Well actually depends on if you have tall weeds types may need & benefit from both. Sheep are grazers; they ramble slowly eating short plants close to the ground. Goats are browsers; they look for leaves, twigs, vines, and shrubs.
Interesting video. Reminds me of a pilot project the state railway company here in Austria did last year, where they used goats on railway embankments to control some invasive weeds.
Seems like a great job and a community service as well! I'm happy for the man.
Any job outside with nature would be a dream job for me.Such a beautiful life :-)
Great job you have there. I've seen goat herds working along the highway near Hailey, Idaho. Had to use Australian Shepherds and flashing signs to keep them off the road so the "stupid people" wouldn't run over them.
I have a nursery where I use chickens to weed the pots full of landscaping plants. They do not eat any of the trees I propagate, just 99% of the weeds. Between the greens they eat from the nursery and the compost piles they scratch through for worms and bugs I get free eggs and free labor. Videos like this show how you can turn a need for labor into healthy whole foods we can eat.
Oh wow.. the kekistanians have advanced to their farming/gardening era, and of course the whole “free labor” thing (wink wink) is the focal point of their strategy.
Great job, heard of this a few years back, people renting them to do yards, instead burning fuel
Thanks, little firegoats.
So glad you found work you enjoy and a balanced lifestyle. Best of luck!
There are many other good aspects in doing this:
1- the meet produced by grass-eating chickens can protect from cancer
2- the chickens are fed for free
3- You fertilize the land at the same time
I am guessing the constantly changing pastures (so to speak) really helps keep the worms at bay. Do you ever have to worm them? How about minerals? What do they eat in winter? Do you copper bolus them? Just curious. I had a lovely herd of cashmere and Kiko goats for years but had to sell my herd when my husband died. Broke my already broken heart. I sure miss them. Goats are wonderful and addictive even when they are driving you crazy. Kidding season was better than Christmas, you never knew what you were going to get.
Now that was an interesting video!! Thanks for sharing it. Stay safe in your travels!
Here's my verdict on this vid: "Not Baaaaaaad!"
I need them for my yard, lol! Great video...thanks for sharing.
4:49. "Hey baby! There she is, the little white and brown one over there", he says as he points to a huge group of white and brown goats. :-D
I wish there was less bureaucracy regarding using goats to control weeds or grass. We have a flea market in the area with a huge solar panel farm - which is a pain to mow. The market wanted to hire a 'goat team' to maintain the area - but were denied the use by the local government (I can't remember what the fuss was). I can't imagine any reasonable excuse for not allowing it. Ugh...government.
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I bet insurance liabilitiy had something to do with it....or plain ignorance and narrowmindedness.
Wait, did the local government take care of the mowing? Because it is also possible they gave the contract to mow to a friend or relative of a council member.
I think goats are the most underated creatures on the planet.
Guy: we need to control these weeds and prevent fires
Goats: BUFFET!!
Great idea!! Love your videos!! Thanks for sharing!!! ☺
So cool! I've heard of this before. Nifty stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic holistic management.
Love goats an think they eat so much and crush what is rough mulch. Good for you an your Family, for rent a goat here in NorCal needs them not enough around here.
So awesome! Natural solution to a natural problem.
Love to see that beautiful sage.
Thank you for sharing, very informative.
Good goats they good kids on the block
Great idea for my Sulcata tortoises. They graze our yard pretty good. lol
I was there when you filmed this
Funny thing is: here in the netherlands the have people with sheep herds that get paid by the governments to "mow the ditches" :-)
Verery good work god blasé u save taking care got beast
gracias❤️
That was cool, thanks for sharing with us.
Those healthy organic food fed goat would be so delicious in a curry stew yum! Yum! Yummy!!
i just love goats thank you
I love goat meat also
hi mike V , i don,t eat meat i just love them ever since i was a little girl i have always wanted arguer goats.
+home away from home Queensland Australia haha was jk!
This reminds me of the cartoon with the lazy sheep dog that protected the sheep's from the coyote on the bugs bunny and tweety show.
Other great thing about goats is they are good eating. Meat on them is good for bbq or roasting
1-800 Rent a Goat
Why can't more Californians wake up to this simple solution of protecting their property from annual range fires??? Selective logging and managed grazing would slow those annual California wildfires a lot...
I have two questions.
How far from the Treasure Valley do you travel with your goats ?
The cemetery at Oakley is overrun with kosia, Russian thistle and puncture vine.
No one takes care of this historic place anymore.
My family has a plot there and i pulled weeds last week until my back gave out.
I got our plot cleared, but it bothered ne that the whole place is such an overgrown mess.
2nd question.
Can goats eat mature puncture vine ?
Im commenting partly out of frustration because the city of Oakley has stopped caring about the resting place of the pioneers who built that valley.
Thanks for listening.
I love what you do !
I have seen people in norcal do this. Cheaper then a lawn mowing service.
we don't use electric fence yet for our goats but it seems very effective instead of us spend hours with them so they don't eat our trees
Mr. Lindquist's small escape of 200 goats in Boise reminded me of the 1960s movie (with Frank Sinatra and other movie stars if that era) called THE GREAT ESCAPE (it was a movie about POWs who escaped from a Nazi Internment Camp during WW II.If it wasn't a free publicity stunt, Tom should of thought of it before this LOL :)This is one of the most interesting videos I've seen on You Tube. Roger
this was done in sourthern california in the san gabriel mountains .using catalina island pygmey goats .
Beautiful...
cute lawnmowers
Nice idea and great t-shirt!
their meet is so good.
The lawnmowers we all deserve.
For guard dogs try Ilyrian sheep dogs, they are the best.
I’m so interested in this fuel/invasive mitigation approach. Have you been raising goats for a long time?
Goats can contribute so much to a yield operation, if you have a good Aussie or Border Collie I think you can make a good living from it. The hard part is not getting attached to any of them, if you do then it’s hard.
Appears to me that the goats should have been brought in a lot earlier in the season. Maybe with some sheep might not have that on the ground as bad. Maybe a week or two after the rain. Here in Phoenix Arizona we have spring and monsoon. In the week or two after it's raining the heavy fire growth Moves In. I'm sure there's a similar situation at that location. Come on bureaucrats better planning.
Hoalistic Growing for the win!!!!!
That would be interesting to see what their milk would taste like
Wonder why they don’t eat that stand of brush?
ancient idea still going on asia, great idea
Not too long ago, this part of east Boise had a fire.
i love it but
my father would never
let me get goats or sheep
because he thought people
would steal them
did you happen to him
if people stole them?
What kind of goats are you using ? Any particular breed?
900 goats on a 30 acre parcel?
I would love to work with animals it's the best
Take Care Of them Please.
we have evasive scottish broom on vancouver island. Do they eat that?
I miss home
how many goats for 2 acres a day?
I would love to do what he does. Unfortunately, I do not have a yard or land.
What do you feed your dogs with ?
Question , will goats eat sage weed
Does he have to milk the goats every day? Or if they are all female no males and no babies then they wouldn't produce milk?
Those are meat goats.
They should rotate chickens a few days after.
very very in teresting
Very common in the PNW
I want to work with you for two months I am from Saudi Arabia
Need to rent goats in Central Missouri...
I appreciate the comment about coyotes. I'd have goats on my place if it weren't for the coyotes.
I wish I had that job.
What breed are the guard dogs?
Awesome
Are those Kiko goats?
Looks like it and pygmy, I see some bore ones too
Goats over chemicals any day!! :D Baaaaaaaa
Starve out the coyotes. Sounds about right.
symbiotic, that's the word ....................
That is a man who has too many kids.
cheaper to just use a jcb and pull those weeds.
We don't rent pigs. :-)
Fuck i found where JW lives i must tell the others!
Ayuda
i could do the same job without goats
I rotate whole goats for to cook it evenly
WHY DONT YOU JUST LET LOOSE THOUSAnd GOATS IN THERE TO EAT GRASS, AND LET THEM BRED LIKE THE FERAL GOATS IN AUSTRALIA
because coyotes would eat them. australia doesnt exactly like its feral goats.
Vejo ycachun
I thought he was going to lift a goat and rotate it. 0/10