The goats are here!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (231366)
Walnut Creek, California
October 11, 2025 5:08pm CST
Every Fall, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, goats are brought in to munch away at the grassy areas that border many of our freeways and larger surface streets.
I keeps the local fire danger down, and I am sure it makes the goats happy. I see big friendly dogs among the goats. I suppose they are there to herd and protect them
Do you have similar programs where you live?
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@wolfgirl569 (123538)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Oct
They are starting to use them a little in some of the bigger parks
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@wolfgirl569 (123538)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Oct
@TheHorse Those look like meat type goats
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@celticeagle (180518)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct
That is so smart. It's also a lot of goats. I love goats. Have you seen the ones that faint?
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@celticeagle (180518)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Oct
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@TheHorse (231366)
• Walnut Creek, California
19h
@celticeagle Thanks.I am home from practice and will check it out.
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@RasmaSandra (89764)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Oct
I don't know about any programs but can you send some goat cheese? and perhaps one goat so I can make more?
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@RasmaSandra (89764)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Oct
@TheHorse one goat black and white or similar
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@TheHorse (231366)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Oct
You could not pay me to eat down blackberry bushes. Unless the thorns get soft by the time I was hired. The most beautiful and lush blackberry bushes I have ever seen were on a trail next to a big waterfall East of Portland. Is it called Multnomah? Or something like that? My Senior Brain cannot remember.
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@Dammy4life (88)
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11 Oct
Nah..no such program in my neck of the woods but it's a good thing though
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@TheHorse (231366)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Oct
@Dammy4life Do you have grass fire issues like we do?
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@Dammy4life (88)
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11 Oct
@TheHorse yeah..it will definitely work..I wish we have such program in my neck of the woods..so many grassy areas
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@rsa101 (40429)
• Philippines
13 Oct
That seems a good thing to do let them graze ang make the grass shorter and easier to maintain. That also mean free labor for grass cutters to pay. Just a bunch of goats to eat them and eventually make the soil fertilized from the goat poops too.
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@ptrikha_2 (48491)
• India
12 Oct
Not any programs as such.
Yet people in High Mountain passes migrate with their herds - Sheep and Goats to lower reaches during winters and then to higher reaches during the summers.
I do not think there is any "official" program as such.
By the way, there seem to be a very large number of the grazing animals !
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@Traceyjayne (5762)
• United Kingdom
12 Oct
That’s a great system to have. I don’t think we have anything like that here in the UK.
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@LindaOHio (203168)
• United States
12 Oct
That is very cool and very good for keeping the fire danger down. No programs like that here.
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@MarieCoyle (49566)
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12 Oct
This makes a lot more sense than constant mowing. More people need to do this, and it needs to be implemented in many other places.
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@MarieCoyle (49566)
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13 Oct
@TheHorse
I haven’t checked around the area but I do know U of I farms has a lot of goats.
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@ogbenishyna44 (894)
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13 Oct
Yea, all over Africa, there are goat markets where people trade those animals and earn a living.
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@thedevilinme (4424)
• Northampton, England
12 Oct
Goats, like pigs, will eat anything
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