SomeBUCKy was busy on the kudzu job late summer of 2012! Eco-Goats welcomed 13 new kids to the herd so far this January. Here are a few pics of the little cuties. Find videos of them and their parents here.
SomeBUCKy was busy on the kudzu job late summer of 2012! Eco-Goats welcomed 13 new kids to the herd so far this January. Here are a few pics of the little cuties. Find videos of them and their parents here.
Davidsonville, MD – Sad news out of Eco-Goats Headquarters this week. The team (human and animal) had to say premature goodbyes to snuggler-extraordinaire, Brucey Goosey. Despite his male anatomy, Bruce aspired to be a dairy goat. When Eco-Goats shepherds learned about Bruce’s zest for life, he was offered the spokesgoat position for the company. The cause of his unfortunately early passing is undetermined but suspected to be Coccidiosis. Bruce was laid to rest among the best. You’ll be missed, little buddy.
Please enjoy this adorable little Eco-Goat: Napoleon. Find more videos of Sir Cuteness (and his friends, family and roommates) on my YouTube channel.
When talking goats here in Maryland, I like to point folks towards my favorite herd, the Eco-Goats, who are fighting the good fight against invasive plant species (and helping out the state’s endangered turtle). But as you all are aware, not all eco-systems are created equal and what may benefit one place could be detrimental to another. No where is this truth more visible today than on the Galapagos Islands of Espanola. There, a population of hundreds of thousands of tortoises (Geochelone hoodensis) has decreased to a few thousand as the population of goats, introduced to the islands by humans, increased exponentially.
So what did scientists decide to do to save the population of tortoises to extinction? A pretty brutal goat eradication program that I’d rather not paraphrase. Read all about it here. The good news is: their efforts, that have been going on unbeknownst to me since the 1970s, appear to have been successful and the turtle population is going to be a-okay. The bad news is: their war on goats has been going on unbeknownst to me since the 1970s.
All kidding aside, it sounds like a success story. One eco-systems’ trash is a blogger in Maryland’s treasure.
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