Wanted: 1 goat herder, 30 goats at O’Hare Int’l Airport (Chicago)

WFLD FOX Chicago ^ | September 13, 2012 | Dane Placko

[EveningStar]

...Fox Chicago has learned the Chicago Department of Aviation recently put out a bid looking for someone to supply goats to graze on the grass and brush at O'Hare. It also calls for a goat herder...

[George Varnum]

Re 16 - What do you think the Muslim Airport Workers are going to do between prayer breaks?

You don’t really think that it’s about the grass, do you?

[JimRed]

Put the goatherder notice on the bulletin board at the nearest mosque...oh, wait- that would be goat humper.

[JimRed]

Even if one did, so what?

If ingesting a bird can bring a plane down, I imagine a goat would be catastrophic!

[bravo whiskey]

the jokes just write themselves.

[Boogieman]

Yes, I suppose if it got sucked into the intake, it would be bad news. I hadn’t thought about that.

[ops33]

During the mid 80’s I was an Air Force air traffic controller stationed in Berlin and worked in the control tower at Tempelhof. There was a large flock of sheep grazing on the grassy infield adjacent to the runways. Turned out that shortly after the Wall went up a shepherd escaped from East Berlin with some of his sheep. The Americans consented to allow him to graze his sheep on Tempelhof. When I was there the shepherd had about 60 or 70 sheep, a portable electric fence and a dog to keep them under control. He would move his sheep about and never interfered with flight operations.

[goat granny]

An acre of knee high alfalfa would be grazed to about ground level by 40 goats in less than a week...We would then close off that pasture and the alfalfa would grow again...you could get 3 good alfalfa feedings per summer...the rest of the pasture was regular grass's, timothy with some alfalfa and other grasses...You close off an area when the goats are done and let it grow up again...there are a few things they won't eat like wild mustard, you have to get rid of burdock first, that can cause problems for the animals...electric wire keeps them penned in good. they won't go near the wire more than once...grazing and the nose hits the wire, they stay at least a foot from said wire... But I don't know of the different between browser vs. grazers, You put goat, sheep or cattle in a pasture and they eat just about anything. (with few exceptions)