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There are six common dairy breeds here in the US and several meat-type breeds. Any type of goat can be trained to pack, you just have to decide on what type of goat will fit your needs.
Alpine goats can come in any color, their ears are upright and they are an alert, hearty animal in any climate....
Goats can be excellent pack animals. Instead of putting the typical thirty-five to fifty pound backpack on your shoulders, you let a goat do the work. A good pack goat will carry at least twenty-five percent of his body weight (a two-hundred-pound wether will pack about fifty pounds), will follo...
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Carry all sorts of gear, greatly reducing the amount of gear you have to carry. Goats can easily carry 20% - 30% of their body weight in saddles and gear (a 200 lbs. goat can readily carry 50 lbs.)
Form close bonds with humans and easily follow you anywhere, on or off-lead ...
27 04 2010
There are six common dairy breeds here in the US and several meat-type breeds. Any type of goat can be trained to pack, you just have to decide on what type of goat will fit your needs.
Alpine goat...
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15 04 2010
Goats can be excellent pack animals. Instead of putting the typical thirty-five to fifty pound backpack on your shoulders, you let a goat do the work. A good pack goat will carry at least twenty-f...
Continue »
15 04 2010
Advantages
Carry all sorts of gear, greatly reducing the amount of gear you have to carry. Goats can easily carry 20% - 30% of their body weight in saddles and gear (a 200 lbs. goat can read...
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15 04 2010
A packgoat is simply a working animal (a goat), properly trained and conditioned, that is used to carry equipment and supplies for their human companions. Goats have been used as a beast o...
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