The goats have menaced residents adjoining Scenic Hill in the well-to-do suburb of Collina, destroying local garden beds with their insatiable appetite.

The local council even rounded up dozens of the pests and shot them. But many more remain.

Warburn farmer Kel Williams has now called on farmers to come to the rescue.

“They’re worth quite a bit of money these days,” Mr Williams said.

“The goat abattoirs are down in their supply.”

Council will be issuing an expression of interest for interested and able parties to undertake a mustering and removal program