I did a cost analysis for the amount of money my golf course spends each year on geese management.
We spend a lot of man-hours on scattering the geese and cleaning up goose droppings. Below are some conservative estimates that you can apply to your course.
| Task | Hours | Duration | Cost
Per Person (Based upon full-time and part-time staff) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| drag tees
and fairways with keystone dragmat |
6 hours per week | November to February/ 16 weeks |
$10 per hour | $960 |
| making
goose runs hourly |
30 minutes | 6 hours per day |
$10 per hour | $2400 |
| shoveling
goose poop off of greens |
1 hour per week |
16 weeks | $10 per hour | $160 |
| making
goose runs daily in the evenings before sunset |
1.5 hours per day x |
16 weeks x 7 days= 112 hours |
$10 per hour | $1120 |
| repairing
goose pecks in greens, collars, and tees |
1 hour per week |
32 weeks x 1 hour work 32 |
$10 per hour | $320 |
| full crew
of 7 randomly chasing geese during summer |
2 hours per week |
32 weeks | $10 per hour | $640 |
The total cost to our golf course and similar to yours is at least
$5600
** I estimated everything conservatively, so you probably will spend even more**
We wanted to develop a product that would get rid of your geese and be less than half of the cost of normal geese maintenance.Phil
Jacobsen
Golf Course
Maint. Supervisor
Littleton
Golf and Tennis Club
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