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Goats on the Run. 🐐::UPDATE::
Last edited Fri Aug 3, 2018, 12:24 PM - Edit history (1)
Joe Parris (@KTVBJoe) Tweeted:
#Breaking - About 100 goats are on the loose right now in a #Boise neighborhood. They are going house to house eating everything in sight. Nobody has a clue where they came from...updates to follow https://t.co/K0ghUwQEfk
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No kidding: 118 goats were found frolicking down Boise’s Summerwind Drive this morning
BY RUTH BROWN AND CHRISTINA LORDS
rbrown@idahostatesman.com
clords@idahostatesman.com
August 03, 2018 09:13 AM
Updated 5 minutes ago
Have you ... herd? More than 100 goats were wandering Boise’s streets Friday morning — chewing on everything in their path and making friends along the way.
The goats, who were originally corralled near an Ada County Highway District retention pond and working that area, tired of that location and broke through several slats of wood in a fence. They then began wandering from lawn to lawn, looking for snacks, meeting the neighbors and attracting reporters from all corners of the Treasure Valley
All 118 goats, who are owned by Kim and Matt Gabica as part of their We Rent Goats business, have since been accounted for. The goats can be rented to knock down weeds and other brush on pastures or other properties. ... “We prefer to do jobs that require at least 100 goats,” according to the We Rent Goats website. “Typically, 100 goats will eat around a half acre a day depending on the amount of vegetation (if the weeds are tall and thick, it will take longer). If you want us to just remove one noxious weed out of your pasture, we move the goats a lot faster so they don’t eat the vegetation (usually grasses) you want to keep.”
The call about the rogue goats came into dispatch around 7 a.m. this morning. By 9 a.m., all of the goats had been loaded on to a trailer to be taken back from whence they came.
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Escaped goats roam a Boise neighborhood Friday morning. Ruth Brown rbrown@idahostatesman.com
BY RUTH BROWN AND CHRISTINA LORDS
rbrown@idahostatesman.com
clords@idahostatesman.com
August 03, 2018 09:13 AM
Updated 5 minutes ago
Have you ... herd? More than 100 goats were wandering Boise’s streets Friday morning — chewing on everything in their path and making friends along the way.
The goats, who were originally corralled near an Ada County Highway District retention pond and working that area, tired of that location and broke through several slats of wood in a fence. They then began wandering from lawn to lawn, looking for snacks, meeting the neighbors and attracting reporters from all corners of the Treasure Valley
All 118 goats, who are owned by Kim and Matt Gabica as part of their We Rent Goats business, have since been accounted for. The goats can be rented to knock down weeds and other brush on pastures or other properties. ... “We prefer to do jobs that require at least 100 goats,” according to the We Rent Goats website. “Typically, 100 goats will eat around a half acre a day depending on the amount of vegetation (if the weeds are tall and thick, it will take longer). If you want us to just remove one noxious weed out of your pasture, we move the goats a lot faster so they don’t eat the vegetation (usually grasses) you want to keep.”
The call about the rogue goats came into dispatch around 7 a.m. this morning. By 9 a.m., all of the goats had been loaded on to a trailer to be taken back from whence they came.
....
Escaped goats roam a Boise neighborhood Friday morning. Ruth Brown rbrown@idahostatesman.com
