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This is part of a message I received on backpaker forum (
http://www.backpacker.com/) in reference to a thread I responded to (
http://www.backpacker.com/cgi-bin/forums...9991134318).
quote:
And then there are pack goats. More manageable than larger livestock, but they can carry fifty pounds apiece. Some rentals out there if you aren't willing to invest and care for them.
Does this mean anything to any of you goat and sheep herders? I wonder how that would work out and how much extra pack room they would have after packing their own food and water? This is something I could possibly be interested in or at least learning more about. Not the raising to rent but for my own use or I would rent from someone.
Pua`a
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No responses! I guess no one is up on the topic. There may be a business opportunity for someone. I would probably be a customer. A couple of links:
http://www.packgoatforum.com/
http://www.napga.org/default.asp?menuID=
http://www.summitpackgoat.com/info.html
Pua`a
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Hey Oink
actually know a few peolpe who do actually use pack goats back in Idaho, knew one guy that would go out pretty much the entire summer, he would start out with about 40 goats. Pack them bad boys up and put them in a string works great and you have a portable packable food source he would start the summer out with about fourty or so and end up with about 25 by the end of summer.. Llamas make great pack animals but don't taste as good. Their too tuff poor suckers are nothing but hair and tenden not much meat, but a good bore cross goat, and 1-2 milk goats and your set you put packs on them to carry your stuff and eat them along the way. I lknow for some of you. You might find it disturbing.... But if you find it disturbing then your one of those that don't really know where your hamburger came from. Let alone how many cows where mixed into that one package of hamburger.
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I hadn't thought of the walking dinner option. And I do like BBQ goat. However, on the Big Isle I don't think the adventures would be long enough to necessitate that option. In the last couple of years I've had the pleasure, a few times, of partaking in some goat stew prepared by immigrants from the Dominican Republic. That also was very good.
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I can't stand the taste of goat, but like the milk and cheese and they make great barnyard pets, but here it is too wet to many problems with hoof rott. Yes I know alot of people have goats here, and very few that I have seen have had good feet, so packing on them would be rough, then you have the parasite issues that have to be treated monthly, same with sheep here. Some of the parasites have as short as a seven hour life before it starts reproducing.
If you brought in a Boar cross goat maybe with some Spanish goat mixed and stayed on the dry side of the island. Then it could be done as a buisness or just for fun.
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And I thought pack rats are bad!
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