Saddle prototype

[Nanno]

Once it's done it'll be sitting higher. It was also falling off to the other side because he kept moving. The end of the forks will be be somewhere between a 1" to 1.5" off of the side boards so that'll bring it up off of him also. And then the padding to go under the side boards will bring it up also just a tad.

Yeah, I took that into account before making my comment. You can take it or leave it, but my observation is that adding side boards and a pad will lift both the front and back forks an equal amount. That means your saddle will still be angled downward with the load sliding forward into your goat's shoulders. The saddle should sit level or it won't fit right. Now is the best time to address these issues. It's much harder to fix poor saddle fit with padding than to make the tree fit from the beginning.


Edit: I just now remembered that your goat is quite young and he will grow a lot and most likely widen out in the shoulders as he matures. That often happens (although the back of the ribcage often widens out as well). Saddle-fitting on a young goat is very imprecise.