DETROIT (AP) — Owners of 18 goats that were evicted from abandoned lots in a Detroit neighborhood plan to slaughter them earlier now that their plan to fatten them on uncut weeds and grass has fallen through.

The goats arrived in the Brightmoor neighborhood June 6 from Idyll Farms in Northport at the tip of northern lower Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula. They were removed June 7 at Detroit animal control officials’ order.