Starting today and through part of this week, a herd of goats will be working their way through the urban orchard site located adjacent to the Church Hill Dog Park in lower Chimborazo Park.
Jace Goodling from Goat Busters anticipates the process taking 4 to 5 days.
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RT @chpn: The goats are here! http://t.co/H96zJ6ATVd
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@chpn I can’t wait to see how much they clear in a week.
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Bon Appetit goats!
@chpn Wow hope it works?
Go Goats!
way to goat
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Holy Goat!
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Goats clearing a site in my neighborhood that’s going to be used as an urban orchard for a local cidery. The best. http://t.co/bokIjD76Rh
Yes…our Church Hill Tour will include goats over the next few days…. http://t.co/sJEdHuKOzs
Watch as the Deer start to pop up from that field.
Lol
RT @chpn: The goats are here! http://t.co/H96zJ6ATVd
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This is like an all-you-can-eat buffet for goats!
40 goats + “bon appetit” = mountain of poo
(Will the City need to hire humans to bag up the poo?)
@G–the poo is the goats’ gift to the orchard! Nature’s fertilizer.
@Murden, thanks for all the goat a-v. they look and sound very happy at chimbo.
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Ahhh, good to know about the “goat’s gift”.
In the famous words of Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore (R. Duvall) in the Academy Award-winning movie, Apocalypse Goat: “I love the smell of goat poo in the morning….Smells like [sniffing, pondering]…victory.” : )
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We went looking for the goats around 9am Memorial Day but couldn’t find them. Did they arrive later in the day or did we somehow overlook all 40 of them? Possible to give an update on there location?
I saw this place recently and thought what a mess! Great idea!
They seemed relatively recent when I rolled by at 11 or so.
The goats were brought in some time monday morning, so as to avoid the fireworks. Apparently, Like Gremlins and water, goats cant be trusted with fireworks.
They are in the bottom of the park below the dog park.
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Wow, great story, hilarious comments. This is why CHPN is the best community news site in the city!
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I think we should just put an electric gate around Chimborazo Park and let the goats maintain the park. I am almost positive they would do a better job than the city maintenance crew………..
We need a goat cam
@20 TOTALLY agreed, we need a goat cam! John Murden, or Jon Sydnor, can you figure out a way to do that?
I’ll 3rd the idea but I’ve got nothing
@22 J. Murden, Jon Sydnor said he would talk to someone. It’s GOTTA HAPPEN! I suggested he talk to someone about how they did the cheetah cam.
A goat cam would be PIMP.
How long will the goats be there? I would love to go see them on Saturday morning?
I think the issue with a goat cam is the lack of access to power and phone/cable lines. It would be expensive to work around this, especially considering that the goat experience is supposed to last less than a week.
Check yourselves for ticks post goat-gazing — my toddler and I walked down to see them last night and almost immediately a teeny deer tick landed on my arm.
That said, if you haven’t been yet, go visit: the goats are adorable. My toddler was especially perplexed by one that was hanging out on top of the shade fixture, “Mommy, why that goat sitting on her house? I not like that.” We then had to wait for the goat to jump off as dark clouds rolled in. My top goat pick: bleating baby goats looking a bit confused by the whole experience.
Chimbo how does your cell phone work without power and cable? Just asking.
@26 yes, I can see that would be a problem, thanks for the explanation. Sadly, I guess we won’t have a goat cam, much as I’d like it…. but John Murden’s videos do help!
http://www.timesdispatch.com/local/columnists-blogs/bill-lohmann/lohmann-no-talk-all-work-and-the-weeds-don-t/article_074da11f-bbd7-52de-8b79-17a03550d503.html
The goats and dogs are gone. 🙁
The goats are back!
So those poor goats are now being forced to eat all that poisoned greenery since nobody planted “the orchard” last year and the powers that be sprayed “the orchard” all down with herbicide anyway? How quickly we forget…
Has animal control been called?
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I saw one of these in Barbados and I bought one.