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12-26-2016, 10:50 PM
I'm working on a novel set 20 years from now, around "The Geysers" in California, north of San Francisco. Various shenanigans are going to be going on around a couple of mountainous ridges, and it just occurred to me that hikers with pack-goats might be useful for the hijinks. Maybe even enough so for one character to have spent a couple of years starting up a pack-goat hiking business in Sonoma County.
I've found a lot of info on raising goats for milk, meat, or fibre; not so much on pack-goats, outside of the existence of the idea, until I found this forum just now. Does anyone here have any advice, references I can skim, or suggestions on what you'd like to see mentioned in a story that includes pack-goats? Or thoughts on how goatherding might change in the next two decades?
(Also, while I'm here, when a goat eats something indigestible and small, around how long does it take for the object to pass?)
I've found a lot of info on raising goats for milk, meat, or fibre; not so much on pack-goats, outside of the existence of the idea, until I found this forum just now. Does anyone here have any advice, references I can skim, or suggestions on what you'd like to see mentioned in a story that includes pack-goats? Or thoughts on how goatherding might change in the next two decades?
(Also, while I'm here, when a goat eats something indigestible and small, around how long does it take for the object to pass?)