Faith Farm

A New Adventure!!!

I am so excited about a new adventure we are about to start here on the farm.  We are going to train our new bucklings (soon to be wethers) to be working goats!  We are going to train them to the harness for driving purposes.  The two large nubian babies are going to be trained as team pullers for a cart and the large Alpine baby to pull a single cart or cultivator.  I have thought that training working goats would be such a fun and useful thing for us to do and now we have the wethers to do it!  If any of you have any experience in training or using working goats please share with me.   All info is appreciated.  Here is a video I found that shows a working goat team pulling a wagon--it is so cute!  I can't wait to get started. Blessings>faithfarm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5dmtc-L2aQ

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{ 08:45, Saturday, April 19, 2008 } { Posted by heritagehill }

How fun this project sounds! We had a cart pony for a little while and really enjoyed it. I have no idea how you train goats to pull.........but I will certainly be interested in your progress, so please keep us updated.
Marilyn

sounds like fun

{ 10:53, Sunday, April 20, 2008 } { Posted by Jess }

WOW that would be fun and work all at the same time. But it will all be so worth it after. We have a llama trainned for pulling carts here as well. Great to have around.Have fun and enjoy.

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{ 07:31, Monday, April 21, 2008 } { Posted by ttwal }

Keep us posted-- my oldest son has been talking about training some of our goats to pull a cart. But we don't know where to start.
Tina