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Too many years since I did this. I have forgotten. Thanks. Connie Losee]]>
Too many years since I did this. I have forgotten. Thanks. Connie Losee]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6644 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:16:52 -0700 Starting Over]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6644
But I'm rusty. Forgot a lot so I will be full of questions again. Hope to connect again with some of you I knew from the past. Thanks. Connie Losee ]]>
But I'm rusty. Forgot a lot so I will be full of questions again. Hope to connect again with some of you I knew from the past. Thanks. Connie Losee ]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6560 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:44:13 -0700 aardvarklove]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6560
I'm trying to decide whether to go and take the boys to either the Colorado or Arkansas rendy this year... and am wondering who else is going to which of those.  Looking forward to a year of hiking with the boys after a year off.

Take care,
Dean.]]>
I'm trying to decide whether to go and take the boys to either the Colorado or Arkansas rendy this year... and am wondering who else is going to which of those.  Looking forward to a year of hiking with the boys after a year off.

Take care,
Dean.]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6555 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:14:39 -0700 Mike]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6555
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I am getting out of pack goats.  Really lame but is what it is. 

 What I have-
- 4 wood croos buck saddles with stay put pads and panniers
- 1 kid pack with panniers
- 4 goat coats all XL fleece lined
- 4 collars with matching lead lines  and locking carabiners
- 6 holters, Large
- 5 assorted lead ropes regular carabiners
- 5 folding dog bowls
- 1 Large fold up.water bucket
- 1 Cooler with straps to hang on cross buck
- 1 set of straps for a cooler to hang off cross buck
- 1 lowline set ( pegs, rope with adjustable positioning loops)
- 1 Goat carting/ pulling harness
- 1 Small animal tattoo kit
- 1 Vet kit- 3 seringes, needle, hoof shears, hoof hook, pill gun, burdizzo tool
- 1 Wound kit, to packs made for camping a few new vet wraps and 2 cans of blue spray
- Assorted goat meds, B vitamins, Copper Bollus, CDT vax, bag
- 2 pannier/ pack scales
- 2 prushes, 1- wire spring time puff out, 1- soft for packing
- 1 fence building kit, wire, pliers, insulators, fence testor, bag
- 4 mobile water area sprinkler heads
- 1 Large scatching brush
- 3 Hanging hay bags
- 1 Gallagher S20 solar fencer
- 5 Books- "The Pack Goat"- Johm Mionczynski,  "Practical Goat Packing", "Diet for Wethers"- Carylin Eddy, 
                   "First Aid for Goats", " Field First Aid for Goats"-  Carolyn Eddy
- 200ft of hose

I would like $1,200.00 for it all or make me an offer.

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I am getting out of pack goats.  Really lame but is what it is. 

 What I have-
- 4 wood croos buck saddles with stay put pads and panniers
- 1 kid pack with panniers
- 4 goat coats all XL fleece lined
- 4 collars with matching lead lines  and locking carabiners
- 6 holters, Large
- 5 assorted lead ropes regular carabiners
- 5 folding dog bowls
- 1 Large fold up.water bucket
- 1 Cooler with straps to hang on cross buck
- 1 set of straps for a cooler to hang off cross buck
- 1 lowline set ( pegs, rope with adjustable positioning loops)
- 1 Goat carting/ pulling harness
- 1 Small animal tattoo kit
- 1 Vet kit- 3 seringes, needle, hoof shears, hoof hook, pill gun, burdizzo tool
- 1 Wound kit, to packs made for camping a few new vet wraps and 2 cans of blue spray
- Assorted goat meds, B vitamins, Copper Bollus, CDT vax, bag
- 2 pannier/ pack scales
- 2 prushes, 1- wire spring time puff out, 1- soft for packing
- 1 fence building kit, wire, pliers, insulators, fence testor, bag
- 4 mobile water area sprinkler heads
- 1 Large scatching brush
- 3 Hanging hay bags
- 1 Gallagher S20 solar fencer
- 5 Books- "The Pack Goat"- Johm Mionczynski,  "Practical Goat Packing", "Diet for Wethers"- Carylin Eddy, 
                   "First Aid for Goats", " Field First Aid for Goats"-  Carolyn Eddy
- 200ft of hose

I would like $1,200.00 for it all or make me an offer.

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Out here on the edge of nowhere, ii've been researching new and exciting uses for the rubber chicken. It’s not an ordinary rubber chicken. This one is a particularly hideous specimen, devil-red and covered with nobs on its skin, and wearing a Santa Claus hat. Also, its neck appears to be much longer than that of your average rubber chicken (but, I’m no expert on the subject; I haven’t come across many rubber chickens in recent years). Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to mention the noise it makes when you squeeze it. It’s a cross between an old man’s dying gasp, a hyperventilating cow, and a New Year’s horn.

It was a gag gift from my mom this Christmas. But I’ve found a purpose for it, and it’s become an essential item around the farm.


Tito my pack goat lives in his own big pen and the three girls have a pen next door. I’m constantly moving the girls around, because the milk shed is in between the two pens, and when I’m done milking each one (Olive-Coconut-Sunflower is our usual order, because that is the order of how pushy they are) I shove her in the pen with Tito. Then, I go in the pen myself, open another gate that leads to the outside, and shoo two of the goats outside (usually Tito-Olive, and Coconut-Sunflower, are the buddy groups). Two at a time only, that way they won’t run away, and whoever’s left in the pen will have a friend so they won’t scream for hours. 

I mention all this because Tito likes to foil my careful system, by either standing in the doorway to the outside so the girls can’t get out, or ramming them as I open the gate to let them in. He gets bored sometimes, and he also feels left out because he knows they’re eating alfalfa pellets and he doesn’t get any (too much alfalfa isn’t good for boy goats. The girls need the extra protein for their milk production). Also, although Tito’s neutered he still likes girls, and he thinks they’re his girlfriends so he doesn’t want me to take them away (but he also likes to pick on them, and gets especially jealous of Coconut, the littlest one).

I’ve had some screaming fits I’d rather forget, prompted by Tito’s ramming the gate so I have to let go for my own safety and then all the goats get into the yard and start destroying everything and eating my trees. I am a patient person but a goat will take you to the edge sometimes. Like a computer, or a dentist, you can’t reason with it. But, you can outwit it. And that is where the chicken comes in.

Now, when I go to Tito’s pen to move girl goats in or out, I come armed. If Tito gets that crazed look in his eyes that means trouble, or worse, starts bucking up and and down like a bronco in excitement, all I have to do is squeeze the chicken and he stops immediately. If he doesn’t back off enough for my liking, I squeeze the chicken again, closer to his ear. He used to run into the barn; now he’s getting used to it but still backs off, and forgets all about whatever bad thing he was previously doing. 

The girls aren’t particularly phased by the chicken, so I’m still able to move them through the gates as needed. Olive does her own pushy thing when I put the littler girls into the girls’ pen; it is less dangerous because she doesn’t have horns, but still annoying. I’ve found that, while she isn’t scared of the chicken noises, it does sometimes work to bonk her on the nose with it to make her back off.

Just life around the farm as usual. There’s always a solution to every problem.]]> I thought I’d post a funny goat story (originally posted on my substack @julialupine where I post stories on goats, homesteading, and many other things). It may eventually be part of a book of short stories about goats; Tito is proving to be a comical character who’s always doing something that’s worth a story). 


Out here on the edge of nowhere, ii've been researching new and exciting uses for the rubber chicken. It’s not an ordinary rubber chicken. This one is a particularly hideous specimen, devil-red and covered with nobs on its skin, and wearing a Santa Claus hat. Also, its neck appears to be much longer than that of your average rubber chicken (but, I’m no expert on the subject; I haven’t come across many rubber chickens in recent years). Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to mention the noise it makes when you squeeze it. It’s a cross between an old man’s dying gasp, a hyperventilating cow, and a New Year’s horn.

It was a gag gift from my mom this Christmas. But I’ve found a purpose for it, and it’s become an essential item around the farm.


Tito my pack goat lives in his own big pen and the three girls have a pen next door. I’m constantly moving the girls around, because the milk shed is in between the two pens, and when I’m done milking each one (Olive-Coconut-Sunflower is our usual order, because that is the order of how pushy they are) I shove her in the pen with Tito. Then, I go in the pen myself, open another gate that leads to the outside, and shoo two of the goats outside (usually Tito-Olive, and Coconut-Sunflower, are the buddy groups). Two at a time only, that way they won’t run away, and whoever’s left in the pen will have a friend so they won’t scream for hours. 

I mention all this because Tito likes to foil my careful system, by either standing in the doorway to the outside so the girls can’t get out, or ramming them as I open the gate to let them in. He gets bored sometimes, and he also feels left out because he knows they’re eating alfalfa pellets and he doesn’t get any (too much alfalfa isn’t good for boy goats. The girls need the extra protein for their milk production). Also, although Tito’s neutered he still likes girls, and he thinks they’re his girlfriends so he doesn’t want me to take them away (but he also likes to pick on them, and gets especially jealous of Coconut, the littlest one).

I’ve had some screaming fits I’d rather forget, prompted by Tito’s ramming the gate so I have to let go for my own safety and then all the goats get into the yard and start destroying everything and eating my trees. I am a patient person but a goat will take you to the edge sometimes. Like a computer, or a dentist, you can’t reason with it. But, you can outwit it. And that is where the chicken comes in.

Now, when I go to Tito’s pen to move girl goats in or out, I come armed. If Tito gets that crazed look in his eyes that means trouble, or worse, starts bucking up and and down like a bronco in excitement, all I have to do is squeeze the chicken and he stops immediately. If he doesn’t back off enough for my liking, I squeeze the chicken again, closer to his ear. He used to run into the barn; now he’s getting used to it but still backs off, and forgets all about whatever bad thing he was previously doing. 

The girls aren’t particularly phased by the chicken, so I’m still able to move them through the gates as needed. Olive does her own pushy thing when I put the littler girls into the girls’ pen; it is less dangerous because she doesn’t have horns, but still annoying. I’ve found that, while she isn’t scared of the chicken noises, it does sometimes work to bonk her on the nose with it to make her back off.

Just life around the farm as usual. There’s always a solution to every problem.]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6531 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:54:20 -0700 Ken7491946]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6531 https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6491 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:14:12 -0700 Duck-Slayer]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6491 Well it’s that time of year again, breeding season. I am taking reservations for my 2026 pack goat babies. All babies parents are on site. Beautiful tall pure Alpine. I have 2 spots for 97% pure American Alpine 3% laMancha,. I have 4 spots for 56% Alpine, 19% Saanen, 19%Boer, 6% Oberhasli. I have 4 spots for 75%Alpine, 25% Ober kids(Dwight Sharp genetics).I have a reservation fee that is non refundable of $150, remaining $350 due on pickup per kid. I raise proven packers, I have 14 years of pack goat experience, packed in 4 states, 100% clean herd. Brush Mountain Pack Goats (2zero8)87one-58one5 call or text, brushmountainpackgoats@gmail.com
Matt]]> Well it’s that time of year again, breeding season. I am taking reservations for my 2026 pack goat babies. All babies parents are on site. Beautiful tall pure Alpine. I have 2 spots for 97% pure American Alpine 3% laMancha,. I have 4 spots for 56% Alpine, 19% Saanen, 19%Boer, 6% Oberhasli. I have 4 spots for 75%Alpine, 25% Ober kids(Dwight Sharp genetics).I have a reservation fee that is non refundable of $150, remaining $350 due on pickup per kid. I raise proven packers, I have 14 years of pack goat experience, packed in 4 states, 100% clean herd. Brush Mountain Pack Goats (2zero8)87one-58one5 call or text, brushmountainpackgoats@gmail.com
Matt]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6486 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:54:16 -0700 Nanno]]> https://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=6486
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Used once from Packgoats.com with camo/ orange covers originally $350. Asking $300 shipped Per set. 

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Used once from Packgoats.com with camo/ orange covers originally $350. Asking $300 shipped Per set. 

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