Goat Central

09/24/2023

My kiko buck. I can visit him now as often as i want now!

09/05/2023

California Legislatures are insane. They are about to destroy the most effective, and ecologically sound practice of vegetations management. Been in this business 23 years and this is absolutely going to devastate the business.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ue3MjSmseXZU38DxL6ozLQwhxt_Mk4GFO2XTBw3Nryk/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0DYdsPioG0_X2tv0dkrF7iGV1JBsfvoVDzTb-4c5-wunD0CpK0OBl_GKw&pli=1

The undersigned organizations, businesses, and individuals request your support to save the critical wildfire prevention and ecological services provided by California’s goat grazing businesses and the skilled herders they employ. More specifically, we are asking for your administration to support...

08/31/2023

Happy to see Placerville using goats!

https://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/fuel-clearing-goats-are-coming-baaaack/article_7d08e0e8-476f-11ee-a2fa-dfc244e89a36.html #:~:text=The%20city%20has%20worked%20with,prioritized%20for%20fire%20fuels%20management.

06/27/2023

Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen. Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1. Rumen - The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaweed moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages.
2. Reticulum -- This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3. Omasum - The 3rd part is a tight basketball shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water and drying out the ingesta.
4. Abomasum - The 4th compartment is like our human stomach. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid for the final digestion before the intestines.
Check out what they look like!

05/26/2023

Herders!

04/27/2023

This week has been crazy! I have been getting an average of 5 calls/emails a day the last 2 weeks for goat work! I wish I could do the contract grazing, there is definitely a need!

04/23/2023

They took a break to walk "The Streets of San Francisco"

A herd of working goats walked off the job Friday in San Francisco, blocking traffic and nearly making its way to Ghirardelli Square, about half a mile from where the goats started.

04/02/2023

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