Anyone have a draft goat?

[Silvercreek Farmer]

I'm kind of flirting with the idea of training one.

[simplyflow]

Ask on the goat forum.. You'll find a bunch of 'em.

[longshot38]

i can remember hearing stories of folks around here having draught goats and useing them for everything from bringing home the groceries to bringing home fire wood.


dean

[Gailann Schrader]

I have a DAFT goat, does that count?

[Ernie]

I have a goat I TRIED to train for draft but it didn't work out very well. I could use some expertise on that one. People do it all over the world with success, so I won't say the idea is bad, but certainly my implementation of it.

[uncle Will in In.]

I went to a draft horse auction at Topeka Ind in the heart of Amish country. Two little Amish boys had a pair of Alpine wethers with new leather harness hooked to a little home made wagon. The smaller boy who looked to be 4 or 5 sat in the wagon and drove them with lines. They looked like young goats but handled as well as a well broke team of draft horses. The bigger boy (about 6) trotted along behind the wagon. They had the outfit inside the sale barn in the aisles. When they turned around in a aisle the front wheel would hit the wagon box. The bigger boy would grab the rear of the wagon and lift it over and on they'd go

My daughter hitched an old nanny goat to a wagon and led her in a parade. I gave her a large canvas work horse halter to use as the harness. She put the goats head through the nose part of the halter and put the upper strap around the goats chest. It worked and looked like it was made for the goat. She used nylon ropes for the tugs.

[Wildwood Flower]

I haven't seen any around here, but I work in an antique store and there are two "Goat Carts" for sale there--both of them old.

One looks like a chariot--which would be strictly for fun riding, I'm sure.

The other one is about 4 ft. long by about 2-2 1/2 feet wide. It looks like it would haul quite a bit.

They're both really neat!

[Cheribelle]

At one of the local small town festivals 2 years ago I saw a goat pulling a cart. It was The Biggest goat I had ever seen, way bigger than a mini horse, and easy the size of a bigger pony than a shetland. He told me he raises registered Boar goats, but this wether was too big to show. They kept him around to entertain the grandkids.

[Cabin Fever]

Is this considered a draft goat?

[uncle Will in In.]

My older brother lived in the southern Indiana hills. They bought a nanny goat that had a new kid. He had two stepsons around 10 and 11. He built a little goat cart out of the hind wheels off a kids wagon, a wooden pickle crate, and a pair of broom handles for shaves. He conjered up a harness and hooked nanny to the little cart. If one of the boys led the goat down the road while the other held the kid at the woodpile, they could let the nanny go and hop in the cart and ride back on a dead run. After several trips the younger boy took the goat way down the road up a grade. The older boy got tired of holding the kid and got up on a large pile of poles being cut for fire wood. and sat down. The nanny came down the hill full steam ahead and ran right up on the pole pile cart and all. Those poles skinned the younger boy up pretty good. It made him mader than a wet hen at his brother for being up there. Thats when my brother found out that the younger boy could pound the tar out of the older one.