FlockWorks

FAQ's - (Less) Frequently Asked Questions

• Do you milk your goats?
  We leave that task of milking to the baby goats, so they get all the nutrition they need.
  Honestly, there is a relatively simple procedure to transitioning from goat kids nursing to milking for human consumption, but executing that on perpetual pasture rotation isn't really realistic. 
• Do goats really eat tin cans?
  No, they don’t. That’s a myth.  They may eat the paper wrapper off of a can though. 
  They do mouth just about everything, so some people think they are eating things that the goats really are just "looking" at.  Our first sense is our sight.  Goats experience much of their world though mouthing things. 
• What about goat droppings?  
  It becomes time released fertilizer, which is beneficial for your land and soil. 
• What time of the year should the goats be grazed? 
  That depends quite a bit on what's there, what you are trying to accomplish, how it was managed recently and more.  But, managed correctly, goats can make a difference grazing any time of the year, but for most goals, in the growing season and before seeds drop is quite often ideal. 
• Do you want Christmas trees for your goats? 
  This is a complicated questions.  It has it's own page to answer this, but generally, no.  
• Do you know who else grazes goats?
  Well, we certainly don't know about every goat grazing company, but have some contact occasionally with other regional folks and we actually founded the largest goat rental support group to attempt to support others who are using goats to manage vegetation. 
  
  There are four (that we are aware of) lists of goat rental companies online.  HireGoats.com is the only website that is believed to being actively maintained.
  
  We really feel that there should be more people grazing goats to manage land in more parts of the country!  That is a large part of why we have so much info here and are setting up GoatWorks to aid others even more.
• Why do you seem to make it so difficult to get a quote?
  There is some truth to that. We actually don't try to make it difficult, but we also don't want it to be easy that people just come to the site and click "Request Quote" before they even know what we do and how we do it.  We want educated and informed customers who choose the benefits that will work for them and for them and for them to know the alternatives before they request a quote.