Mountain View Pack Goats
Hello and Welcome!
We would like to welcome you to our little place on the web. Thanks for stopping by!
We live in the very Northern part of California. Just a few hours away from the Oregon border and just a few Minutes away from the beautiful Shasta Lake. This is a great place to live! In just a few hours we can be at the coast or up in our wonderful mountains. This is the perfect place to hike and pack! Besides our family going on weekly hikes, I am also the 4-H Pack Goat Leader for our County, and the co-founder and President of our local pack goat club, the Shasta Pack Goat Club.
We live in the very Northern part of California. Just a few hours away from the Oregon border and just a few Minutes away from the beautiful Shasta Lake. This is a great place to live! In just a few hours we can be at the coast or up in our wonderful mountains. This is the perfect place to hike and pack! Besides our family going on weekly hikes, I am also the 4-H Pack Goat Leader for our County, and the co-founder and President of our local pack goat club, the Shasta Pack Goat Club.
Our start in goats
We got our first goats in 2004. Our first goats were 2 Kinders and then a Toggenburg, and we mainly got them just to have real milk and to try to cut out as many chemicals from our diet as we could.
Well, it didn't take us very long to find out how wonderful these little critters are! We went from 3 to 9 then to 17, in a short period of time. We went from just milkers and pets, to the kids doing a little showing in 4-H, then we heard about pack goats! My life has never been the same!
Well, it didn't take us very long to find out how wonderful these little critters are! We went from 3 to 9 then to 17, in a short period of time. We went from just milkers and pets, to the kids doing a little showing in 4-H, then we heard about pack goats! My life has never been the same!
Our Pack Goat Program
Our goal is to breed nice big strong pack goats that are structurally correct, super friendly and will work all day and hopefully add some flash. I love my color!
Thanks to Charlie Goggins and Debbie Waligorski, we got our start in our awesome line by using a Goggins buck and some of our does that we had been working on for a few years. After a few years of strict culling, we are getting the most awesome pack goats ever!
We have always tested for CAE and CL and our herd has always tested Negative. We only buy from herds that test yearly and test Negative. We have started testing for Johne's and Brucellosis and our herd has been negative.
We follow a strict CAE preventative program. All our babies are pulled at birth and bottle fed on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk.
This also makes for super bonded babies. We begin water training with the babies with their bottles and one of those plastic wading pools, then we work up to bottle feeding while standing in creeks. Our goats usually have no problems with water crossings or drinking out of creeks and lakes.
Thanks to Charlie Goggins and Debbie Waligorski, we got our start in our awesome line by using a Goggins buck and some of our does that we had been working on for a few years. After a few years of strict culling, we are getting the most awesome pack goats ever!
We have always tested for CAE and CL and our herd has always tested Negative. We only buy from herds that test yearly and test Negative. We have started testing for Johne's and Brucellosis and our herd has been negative.
We follow a strict CAE preventative program. All our babies are pulled at birth and bottle fed on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk.
This also makes for super bonded babies. We begin water training with the babies with their bottles and one of those plastic wading pools, then we work up to bottle feeding while standing in creeks. Our goats usually have no problems with water crossings or drinking out of creeks and lakes.
Our Dairy/Pack Girls
Besides hiking and packing with our goats, we have our dairy girls (which we pack with also), we drink their wonderful milk, make ice cream all summer long, and make soft spreadable cheeses and Mozzarella.
After buying goats milk soap from a very good friend of ours, Aja-Sammati Farm, she was nice enough to come over and show me how to make goats milk soap. Thank you Michelle! Soap making has been fun and adventurous. Our oldest daughter has just started soap making this year 2015/2016 with the milk from her Nigerians. It has been quite fun teaching her and watching her start to expand with her soaping.
After buying goats milk soap from a very good friend of ours, Aja-Sammati Farm, she was nice enough to come over and show me how to make goats milk soap. Thank you Michelle! Soap making has been fun and adventurous. Our oldest daughter has just started soap making this year 2015/2016 with the milk from her Nigerians. It has been quite fun teaching her and watching her start to expand with her soaping.
You can reach us at goingnutsmom01@gmail.com
