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I looked into this a couple of times for an urban-ish lot with an overgrown backyard. (I don't have a green thumb!). There were several services in my area, inc
by dlgeek 4y ago
I looked into this a couple of times for an urban-ish lot with an overgrown backyard. (I don't have a green thumb!). There were several services in my area, including the awesomely-named Rent-a-ruminant.
Unfortunately, for smaller lots, it just isn't feasible - the way the pricing is structured, the setup fees get you. They are really for multi-acre lots where they set up significant fencing and leave the goats for several days.
- semi-extrinsic 4y agoHere in Northern Europe they just use GPS-enabled electric collars on the goats, and do literal geofencing with that. Then you don't have any cost of setting up physical fences. Of course you have to accept that the fence position has an inaccuracy 5-6 meters, so it only makes sense for large areas where there is nothing that will kill the goat if it strays a little outside the fence.
- Aperocky 4y agoWhat if the goat wanders into the wrong direction and get lost? Would it die of electric shock or would the collar run out of battery.. eventually
- semi-extrinsic 4y agoI'm pretty sure the collars can't cause deadly harm, just discomfort. I don't know anything about implementation details, but I assume that the shock strength varies such that the goats figure out they have to turn around.