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Argan goats, named after the trees they climb in search of their preferred dessert, the Argan fruit, have been climbing trees in southwestern Morocco for centuries. Photographer Michael Chinnici took this video (along with a few sweet photos) on a recent trip to their neck of the woods.
According to Chinnici’s blog, kernels from the Argan fruit drop to the ground in the goats’ poop and the whole kit and caboodle are pressed into oil by locals for use in cooking and skin treatments.
Thank you, Michael Chinnici! Without you, we couldn’t have the best kind of Wednesday: a Wednesday where we get to watch goats hang out in trees.
The goats browse away happily, completely defoliating these unwanted plants. They destroy the seeds inside their digestive tracts and then scatter droppings everywhere, fertilizing the ground as they go. They come back another time or two for subsequent passes, and voilÁ , a piece of land overrun by invasive plants has been reclaimed and improved in a cute, non-chemical and non-fossil fuel-burning way. Thus has the goat rental business taken hold across the co
If you’ve been reading On Pasture for very long, you’ve certainly seen Whit Hibbard’s articles sharing the ins and outs of moving cattle and other livestock. But sometimes it helps to see the principles in action. So here’s a video prepared by our friends down under, with the help of animal handling consultant Boyd Holden. We’ve shared some of Boyd’s cattle handling videos in past, but in this set of videos we see the principles applied to sheep. I like that Boyd starts at th