08-09-2016, 09:38 PM
[quote SkunkedAgain]Hey Ron, that's pretty cool and nice pictures. May I ask why you quit? Was it a time catching up to you or animals got too old and didn't want to train a new group? I've been trying to decide how long I can keep this up, they tell me it takes about four years to get the animals up to packing weight and size and then you can get up to ten years of service from the animals. That means I'll be 56 when they are ready and they may keep me going to 66. I'm hoping I'm still ok to pack that long, but I guess you never know. Thanks for the info. J[/quote]
In my case I didn't own a pasture I was bumming spots to keep them. I had a LOT of good times with them. I still have all my gear and some day if I get a pasture I might get some again. When one of my goats died I decided that I was going to sell them because it was going to be too hard watching them die. Back then I was doing a LOT of elk hunting. I didn't fall out of love with the goats it was more of a thing where I started to do other stuff more.
I started to compete in AKC events with my dog. I started fishing more with my float tubes. My kids got older and that took time. Again I would go back to using them and I have all the gear but right now I am not in the mood for it. Training took a lot of time and energy. I can tell you that there is nothing cooler than crouching between two goats and walking into a heard of elk and killing two bulls out of the heard.
I also liked watching horses buck off their owners when they freak out over seeing goats for the first time.
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In my case I didn't own a pasture I was bumming spots to keep them. I had a LOT of good times with them. I still have all my gear and some day if I get a pasture I might get some again. When one of my goats died I decided that I was going to sell them because it was going to be too hard watching them die. Back then I was doing a LOT of elk hunting. I didn't fall out of love with the goats it was more of a thing where I started to do other stuff more.
I started to compete in AKC events with my dog. I started fishing more with my float tubes. My kids got older and that took time. Again I would go back to using them and I have all the gear but right now I am not in the mood for it. Training took a lot of time and energy. I can tell you that there is nothing cooler than crouching between two goats and walking into a heard of elk and killing two bulls out of the heard.
I also liked watching horses buck off their owners when they freak out over seeing goats for the first time.
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