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Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 9:58 am ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildli ... mower.html ![]()
And are more reliable than a mower. ![]() |
Author: | soddit112 [ Thu May 13, 2010 11:15 am ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
and much cuter ![]() |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 11:40 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
I now need to buy a house with enough grounds to have a herd of wallabies. ![]() |
Author: | Linux_User [ Thu May 13, 2010 12:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
I'm not sure I like the idea of increasing the size of an alien species. |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 1:06 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
Yes but at least they are big enough to count if they go missing. ![]() |
Author: | JJW009 [ Thu May 13, 2010 1:57 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | ||||||||||||||||||
And it shouldn't be a problem if you tie me kangaroo down, sport. |
Author: | hifidelity2 [ Thu May 13, 2010 3:10 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wallabie Pie ![]() |
Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu May 13, 2010 3:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
your missing the other benefit of having a wallaby, according to this documentary I saw when I was younger, they were amazing at rescuing people from mines, gansters and saving people in general. They could also be understood by nearly all aussies as well!!! ![]() ![]() |
Author: | Bluespider [ Thu May 13, 2010 3:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
Whilst good for fertilising the lawn, I can't imagine they will be carbon neutral will they? plus if you had 2 acres of lawn would you not be wanting a sit on lawnmower to play on? I would! |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 4:00 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
Yes but I think that wallabies like their kangaroo cousins do not fart, so are much more carbon friendly overall than sheep or other herbivores. |
Author: | Bluespider [ Thu May 13, 2010 4:10 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
![]() who has tested that out? has someone sat in a locked room all day with a kangaroo thats been force fed beans? ![]() i think all animals pass gas, its part of the digest by product. maybe not in the same volume as the methane menace of dairy herds but if they eat the same thing (grass) surely the by products will be the same? |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 4:20 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
The australians. They are actually trying to find out why. They think that it might be down to the bacteria. They are trying to see if they can replace cattle gut bacteria with kangaroo bacteria to see if that has an impact on the methane output of cattle. If it does it could wipe billions of tonnes of CO equivalent from the carbon impact of farmers. |
Author: | Bluespider [ Thu May 13, 2010 4:46 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower |
and if that doesn't pan out fill them full of strawberries = instant milk shake |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu May 13, 2010 5:01 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
That is definitely a plan B I can support. ![]() |
Author: | JJW009 [ Thu May 13, 2010 5:21 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Wallabies sold as alternatives to lawnmower | |||||||||
If they only eat plants then it is a closed cycle. The only CO2 they breath out comes from the plants they eat, which breath in the CO2 to grow. In effect, they are a lawn mower that is fuelled from the grass they cut. Remember if you cut the grass by any other method and just leave it, then it rots down to produce CO2 and methane through bacterial decay. |
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