In 2022, I fell in love with a little wether from my kid crop and I just couldn't bring myself to send him to the sale barn, so I decided this was the year to finally start learning about pack goats and get out on the trail! Cocoa took his first overnight outing in the mountains in 2023 and he loved it!
I will use this page to document my pack goat wether herd, post pictures, and other info about my herd and how they relate to packing. All of my wethers come from the breeding stock that is shown on my Bucks and Does page (all my kids are dam raised, not bottle raised). I will be adding information about heights and weights when I get a little more time. Also, I have registered all of these wethers with ADGA so that their birthdates, lineage, current ownership, tattoos (and eventually microchips) will be on official record.
I have purchased saddles and other gear from Packgoats.com and I very satisfied with the quality I have received. I highly recommend checking out their website it you're looking to purchase gear.
I will use this page to document my pack goat wether herd, post pictures, and other info about my herd and how they relate to packing. All of my wethers come from the breeding stock that is shown on my Bucks and Does page (all my kids are dam raised, not bottle raised). I will be adding information about heights and weights when I get a little more time. Also, I have registered all of these wethers with ADGA so that their birthdates, lineage, current ownership, tattoos (and eventually microchips) will be on official record.
I have purchased saddles and other gear from Packgoats.com and I very satisfied with the quality I have received. I highly recommend checking out their website it you're looking to purchase gear.
Seven Winds Farm Resident Pack Goats
Cocoa (Seven Winds AQ Cocoa)
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DOB: April 7, 2022
Color: Chocolate Horns Sire: Kastdemur's Aquatic Dam: J & R Lamanchas Ooolala Cocoa was the teeny tiny runt in a litter of 3 kids. His dam is the largest doe I have (she is HUGE, especially for a doe) and his sire comes from large genetics, too. He was about 1/2 the size of his siblings and I wasn't even sure he would thrive. But the little tyke was healthy and kept up with his siblings just fine, he was just smaller. At 6 weeks old, his dam got sick and, to reduce stress on her and let her recover, I made the decision to pull her buck kids off early. Both buck kids refused bottles, so at 6 weeks old they were just on grain, grass, and hay. The did fine, but definitely didn't have the nice fat dam-raised look of other herdmates the same age. Cocoa was the sweetest kid of the year since Day 1 and couldn't help but just fall in love with him. My wethers were all going to the sale barn that year, but when came time to load the wethers, Cocoa was the first to follow me straight in the trailer while I was opening gates. He followed me back out of the trailer, just walking along and looking up at me if I stopped. After I got everybody loaded and was closing the door, Cocoa tried sticking his head out to see me...I just couldn't do it. I opened the trailer and let him hop out, put him in the pen with his sire, and decided he was going to be my first pack goat, even if he's just a little runt. Spring 2023: Cocoa is finally starting to come into himself and get a growth spurt (to be fair, his sire didn't really start adding size until late his yearling year, either. And now he just keeps growing!). I retained Cocoa's littermate sister for my show herd and she is significantly bigger than him, as is his paternal 1/2 sister who was born around the the same time. But I think he's going to finish out a decent size to be a packer and he most certainly has the disposition for it! May 2024 Update: Cocoa is nice size and has really started filling out and getting more body mass. He is not a huge packer, as the big yearlings Timber and Kirby are nearly as tall as him already. However, he is plenty big for my purposes and his personality cannot be beat. Weather is starting to get nice in Montana, so we'll hopefully be hitting the trails very soon! |
Cocoa's Hike Log:
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Arrow & Briggs (Seven Winds AQ Arrow and Seven Winds AQ Briggs)
DOB: May 8, 2024
Color: Arrow: Dark chocolate Briggs: Tan with some black points
Both disbudded
Sire: Kastdemur's Aquatic
Dam: Seven Winds AQ River
I was so excited when River birthed twin boys for her first freshening! River is a littermate sister to Cocoa, who has the most perfect personality for a pack goat. I had to breed River back to her sire as my reservation didn't come through on a new buck, so these boys are "heavily linebred" (hehe), but are the sweetest, calmest little guys. Little Arrow is the spitting image of his uncle Cocoa, in both looks and personality. Briggs looks very similar to his dam. I am sooo incredibly excited about these guys. They were named after Arrow Peak and Briggs Creek in the Highwood Mountains.
I disbudded both of these guys as my place really isn't set-up well for horned goats. I am probably going to be disbudding my personal pack wethers going forward.
Color: Arrow: Dark chocolate Briggs: Tan with some black points
Both disbudded
Sire: Kastdemur's Aquatic
Dam: Seven Winds AQ River
I was so excited when River birthed twin boys for her first freshening! River is a littermate sister to Cocoa, who has the most perfect personality for a pack goat. I had to breed River back to her sire as my reservation didn't come through on a new buck, so these boys are "heavily linebred" (hehe), but are the sweetest, calmest little guys. Little Arrow is the spitting image of his uncle Cocoa, in both looks and personality. Briggs looks very similar to his dam. I am sooo incredibly excited about these guys. They were named after Arrow Peak and Briggs Creek in the Highwood Mountains.
I disbudded both of these guys as my place really isn't set-up well for horned goats. I am probably going to be disbudding my personal pack wethers going forward.
