Getting a workforce from agencies may cost thousands of bucks for the employer. Besides, hiring humans can also give you headaches because not all people follow instructions. The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency know these facts that's why instead of hiring humans to aid them in making a part of LA clean and have the weed growths disappear, they hired animals. Goats in particular.100 goats were hired by the Redevelopment agency to nibble away wee growths that's making the face of the Bunker Hill high-rise district ugly. What lucky goats they are. Some people are unemployed, but they are there working like animals, literally.
Hiring the goats means a lot to their employers. Aside from obviously the cheaper cost, goats munching the weeds down are also more environmentally friendly than having those weed boys take on the gasoline and burn down those grasses.
The agency said they are also more fun to watch than human workers. As soon as passers by noticed the goats, they all would take out their cellphones and take pictures of the animal laborers.
The cost for having these 100 goats nibble the grasses down is only $3,000 as compared to the supposedly $7,500 if humans are to be hired. Females are the biggest members of the South African Boer goats working on the site. To keep these females to stay focused on their work, eating grasses, the male members of the herd were castrated.
George Gonzales, a 71 year-old man of Chino is the goat-keeper of the herd. In case the goats run out of appetite for grass, his wife, Liz Gonzales, is a veterinarian and will make those love for weeds back. When the goat-keeper is away, a security guard is there to watch over the goats.
Indeed, the hills are alive with the sound of munching!
