Except for certain goat-like varieties called "hair sheep" they require shearing. Shearing is best appreciated by actual hands-on practise. You and the sheep become one mass of restrained wool and muscle while you try to emulate the NZ shearers you've seen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUOC...

It helps, perhaps, to explain to the sheep, "A helpless sheep is a calm sheep, a helpless sheep is a calm sheep."

It also help to be an athletic man between the ages of 15 and 32.

If you are scared that you'll injure your sheep with the power shears you can use the traditional kind instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bvr9...

Thioacetone.

Agreed. Sheep would do better with a lawn, whereas goats do better as general browsers. I think sheep manure smells better (relatively speaking) than goat manure. Still better than the dog smell that came from my neighbour's yard where I used to live.

They do not like competition because they can't compete or do not want to compete with that...like a bunch of jealous brats.

I have begun to define Competition as two or more entities, dependent upon each other, to achieve the best they can achieve.

Perfect. If the union wins, the University and the owner of the goats,(who have entered into a mutual. non-coerced agreement according to the laws of liberty and capitalism) will be forced essentially under the threat of some kind of eventual violence to comply with the government's decision. I would bet that if the union owned the goats and have a paid herder, they would not be complaining. I believe in putting the shoe on the other foot. That is right out of "Atlas Shrugged."

Don't give em any ideas!

How long before they try to unionize the goats?

healthcare is crashing left and right. more and more providers are refusing to accept government insurance, including Mayo Clinic as of like march 2017.

You know you got the wrong degree (!) when an animal can do your job........LOL

Nor increase our health care, take off every holiday or require union meeting days at our expense.

Nothing like competition to put a little rationality into the discourse of union leaders. Automation would also be effective in clearing underbrush, especially the autonomous robots.

Goats are currently cheaper and more efffective and wont sue you, so I think its a great idea.

Tell the Union that they haye the Earth if rhey have a problem with the goats.

Thank you Snezzy, oh, by the way, did you get any on you?
Snezzy/sneeze...get it?...laughing

...plus they also supplied cheap fertilizer! A two-fer!

No, it's horses that rip out the roots. As long as there is enough grass for the size of the herd, sheep maintain a beautifully mowed lawn. Look at the old 16th or 17th century paintings of fine English homes. Beautiful lawns. Sheep.

Goats are preferentially browsers (eating brush) rather than grazers like sheep. In the woods they will eat everything up to about four or five feet in the air, leaving you with a nearly unobstructed view through the trees. Cattle much the same, but they really prefer grass.

Be thankful that you don't live in pelocyville...there no vile a smell than that in all of creation.

There are few odors less enticing then goat crap.

Sheep would do a better job...they don't rip out the roots as much...as far as the droppings...think Fertilizer!

Think I can hire some goats to do my lawn? What about the -er, droppings? I'll have to think about that.

I've seen that cause shoot 'em ups in more than one cowboy movie.

That was the problem with goats and sheep back in the day because they rip out the grass, roots and all.

Excellent point.
For three years I lived in a rented house next door to a wooded property where five goats were fenced in beside a creek that was bracketed by dense brush anywhere else.
As for that "wooded" property, it was "wooded" because there were just trees. The grounds were as neat as a park for no bushes, no weeds, no no ivy, none of that invasive kudzu that grows all over Alabama and unfortunately no flowers. There was some grass that never needed to be mowed but the ground was mostly bare earth.

Exactly and we don't have to worry about them donating our funds to the opposing political candidate.

Wonderfully cheaper! The goats are paid in full with the food it is their job to eat.