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Attached is a photo taken of my four in
hand hitch at the
Hoegers.com and the bits I use are the small
3 ˝ “, bar with a slight curve (mullen?) from any miniature horse
catalog. http://www.minitack.com/llm.htm
I have a Nubian as my lead, and the three
white ones are Nubian-Boer cross – I wanted the height with the muscle
you get from that cross.
I started with one goat initially and
built my hitch from there. Am currently working on a six in hand, I have
another set of twin Boers that
Will be the swing team. They do not make
lines for a four in hand, you have to have that made or make them yourself. I
have all wethers,
I never did want my does doing this type
of work for fear of compromising the udder or milk production. I don’t
have milk does any longer, and
I’ve been able to get my wethers for
free or for cheap since I don’t raise them myself anymore. You can see
my team in action on You Tube
Go to You Tube and type in kerriolsen and
you will see several videos that I have posted. My uncles built all my wagons –
I have several.
http://hoeggergoatsupply.com/xcart/home.php
I finally invested in a set of harness
made especially for my hitch from an Amish harness maker in
Ordered that through a friend, but it cost
me about $900 bucks without bits
http://www.goattracksmagazine.com/index.html
This link for goat tracks magazine has
some awesome pictures, and lots of information for training.
Good luck!
FYI I don’t think that there are any
gender drawbacks, but I do have a friend that tried to train a doe that was
about two or three years old
She was such a pain that my friend went
back to just wethers. Yes the training is the same as for horses – the good
thing is that I am able
To manhandle the goat when I have to where
you can’t do that with a horse. I have also trained my Mustang to
drive. The thing that you can’t
Train out of a goat is their fear of dogs
though, and I always have problems with my team when there are unfamiliar dogs
around. And small
Kids – my team really has a problem
with small children in large groups like at parades and fairs. They come close
to pet and it scares the
Goats most of the time. When my team is
in harness I keep the kids away and tell them they can pet the goats when they
are done working.
And that’s the thing of it. Once
they are out of harness, they don’t mind the kids so much. But the
harness puts the goat in what they see
As a venerable position – they can’t
flee if they feel the need to – I think that’s why the kids bother
them so much. I took me about a year
With the four in had before they “got
it” and now they all work together just fine. This was my second summer
doing parades and fairs.
I’m excited for next year -
From:
HarnessGoats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:HarnessGoats@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of touchstone
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009
3:48 AM
To: HarnessGoats@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HarnessGoats] Doelings
I have been interested in
training a pair of doelings to harness and wonder if there are any gender
drawbacks to doing this. I seperate and raise all my kids on CAE prevention so
they are friendly. I have a pair now that will be a year in July and I am not
going to be breeding them until 2010 so that should give me a good length of
time to get them well started.
In my younger days I
worked quite extensively with horses and did a lot of ground driving training
with youngsters. I am assuming that the training will be similar. These
doelings have been shown so they lead and stand well for that purpose. I will
need to get a harness for each and a bridle/halter to start the long-lining
process. I do not know where to go to purchase these. I live in
Thanks in advance for any
help.
Lois
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go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm.
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