“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 ...

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, ...

Pack horses are tried and true, and mules are proven hunting-gear haulers. Hunting elk with a trio of domestic goats, though, is an acquired taste. John and Nancy Clough of Dalton Gardens have joined ...

As I jogged up the Vallombrosa trail from the One Mile parking lot in lower Bidwell Park, around this time last year, I was delighted to see the low white fencing that penned in a herd of goats. I had ...

Melanie Davisson stood outside the gate of the Livestock Arena with her pack goat, waiting to show everyone watching Primrose’s ability to go through an obstacle course of hay bales and metal pipes at ...

Efforts are underway to restrict pack goats in some public lands because of concerns for transferring disease that can kill bighorn sheep. “While that’s been connected to domestic sheep, recent ...