One Utahn company is trying to prevent fires by hiring local workers to reduce the local vegetation. Those workers being goats and sheep.
The company, 4 Leaf Ranch, brought over 300 animals to the field – some sheep, one male goat and mainly female goats. Cover says the female goats can eat about 5-7 pounds of grass per day, and the male eats about 10 pounds.
“Chemical companies that spray the herbicides, they put a carbon imprint on the environment between birds, bees. There’s no carbon imprint, there’s no methane, and it’s a weed-free fertilizer when they’re done,” said Greg Cover, owner and operator of 4 Leaf Ranch. He has been working with goats for over 2 decades.
“So, goats have 4 compartments in their belly, and they don’t re-seed in their poop,” said Cover. That means they digest even the seeds of the weeds completely, so they won’t grow back from the manure left behind. “The goats have been coming in for the past couple of years and there’s some good science behind it as far as fire control and week control, but for the people who live here, they go through and they eat everything to the bone and climb the trees and eat the trees and what we’re left with is a dustbowl for the rest of the summer,” said Matt Lindon who lives in silver springs in Snyderville.
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