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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – June 25, 2019 <br /> <br />SM: What kind plants you guys run into that are toxic for the goats or the sheep <br />too – or just the sheep? <br /> <br />MC: Both species – I’m gonna be honest – I can’t name all of them. There is <br />numerous ones. We know white sap – anything with white sap is actually a <br />toxin to animals and we are actually doing more research as we talk on spring <br />– during the spring we’re actually running into problems where some of the <br />blossoms can be a little toxic too. So we’re actually doing more research on <br />these toxic plants. <br /> <br />SM: Because you know that castor oil bean – that’s supposed to be toxic – and <br />the goats they crack that so... <br /> <br />MC: One thing we luck out with the goats – they actually can handle 90% of toxins <br />in a day. Our company don’t – we don’t like to push them that far – it’s a <br />health issue and we have a no kill herd – so our animals is like our kids and <br />we don’t want to push them that far. We’ll push them maybe out a 50/60 % <br />toxic plants. Not more than that. <br /> <br />SM: What about water for these goats. You guys bring in water? <br /> <br />MC: We bring in our own water. Once in a while we do luck out where there is <br />water ponds and stuff like that on the properties we do work on – but most of <br />the time we bring in our own fresh water. <br /> <br />JO: Are most of our clients – your customers private? Do you work with the State <br />or the County on any particular parcels? What’s your mix of business? <br /> <br />MC: We started – don’t get me wrong – we still doing private people. Proud to say <br />one of our biggest clients is actually is Hawaii National Guard down KMR in <br />Hilo, which we, actually, with a big group of us we actually won some awards <br />for being environmentally friendly land clearing. <br /> <br /> It was a big project – it took a lot of strategies – a lot of us putting our heads <br />together and we got this project done – very proud to say. <br /> <br />JO: Nice recognition to put on your hat there – nice hat by the way... <br /> <br />MC: Thank you. <br /> <br />TN: Being that goats are browsers how do you contain the goats in one of your <br />projects where they don’t eat everything. How is protection given to our <br />natural resources of plants and shrubbery that are either indigenous or <br />endemic? How do you control that? <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />