Romeo approaches the electrified fence, lovestruck. What light through yonder fence breaks? It is the east, and Carolyn and Kyle Carr are the sun. The Carrs own Rent-a-Ruminant Texas, a grazing management company with four human employees and about six hundred goat staffers—with 2,400 stomach chambers between them. Goats’ four stomach chambers enable them to digest material that flummoxes people, digestively and logistically, making them valuable soldiers in the constant war against uninvited flora. Romeo, a taller goat with a white-and-beige face and tidy horns, is one of 85 rented ruminants that have been deployed to a northeastern bank of Austin’s Lady Bird Lake to help manage poison ivy.But at the moment Romeo is distracted. “He is in love,” Carolyn says as he draws nearer…The post The G.O.A.T. of Landscape Management? Goats. appeared first on Texas Monthly.
