“Pack goats make my life easy,” said Howie Halcomb, a hunter who pursues game with the rigor of a backcountry athlete. The 38-year-old sportsman said pack goats are ideal companions for hiking to ...

Robert Hatton-Fearnley got the idea of training goats to carry hiking gear while on a camping trip with his dad. "He's 60 years old and carrying a 50-pound pack," he said. "Like, if I want to keep ...

So you've heard of pack donkeys and pack alpacas - but what about a pack ... goat? Rachel Karneffel works at Foghorn Farm and has a few goats that she's working on training - to be pack goats. Kind of ...

While goats can also carry movi, Desarae points out that a small pack goat herd is different from hundreds or thousands of free-ranging sheep. The treasurer for North American Packgoat Association, ...