New Member Intro: From Oregon

[Dave-Trinity-Farms]

Regardless of where you get em, making sure they are clean and disease free is where your main focus should be. Followed closely by finding the kind of goats you are looking for. Very few breeders (including myself) breed specifically for pack goats. Size is important but not even in the top 3 for a typical dairy breeder. Production, confirmation are the top 2. A dairy breeders main income either from the milk or from the doe kids. When I can sell a 3 month old dam raised, wild, never been messed with wether for butcher at nearly the same price as a bottle raised, tame and friendly one thats going to go for packing, not a lot of incentive to focus on just the packing aspect. But I do it cause its freaking awesome So potentially any dairy breeder will work. But if they dont test for CAE / CL / Johnees (though the later two are not that simple to test for) then you should just keep looking.