How do you "get your goat"?

Oakroot

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We don't have a trailer yet but we do have a pickup truck with a fully inclosed camper shell. I think we are going to go pick up our first goat next weekend so our plan is to bed down the back of the truck with some straw. She should be safe and warm in there. We might look woefully like green horns doing so but what the heck, I am a woeful green horn when it comes to goats!

Just wondering how everyone else moves their goats around. Any funny stories about crazy goat transport antics?
 

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Don't have goats, but I move my sheep in the back of my pickup truck in an XL dog crate (it's 4' long and like 2' wide) and it fits two ewes in there. I did have to add a 2' extension onto it (so it was 6' long) because I took my ram and wether to auction and there wouldn't have been enough room in there otherwise ('cause my ram had a wide belly :D).

I also put a medium sized dog crate in the back of my car (mercury cougar) and put my two 40-50# lambs in there to take them to fair and a 4-H meeting. They were so loud baaing the whole way, right in my ear :rolleyes:

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Ewe & lamb in 4' long dog cage (we had it when we had bullmastiffs)
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The same dog cage with a 2' extension - and then with my old ram and wether in it
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Depends on how far we are going if we use a crate or not, we have a Nissan Rogue, so put the back seats down, lay a tarp with some hay and they will travel just fine. When I took my week old kids to be disbudded, I just put them on the front seat with a big fluffy blanket and they laid down and slept most of the way. Goats like car rides, I know some folks take them just like dogs. Don't think they put their heads out the window and let the wind flap their ears tho!
 

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Heck, we brought our pony Teddy home in the back of our suburban! I couldn't see hauling our big stock trailer for one small pony. :)
 

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I've brought two goats home in a large dog crate in the backseat of my moms Kia Optima, then I brought one home on my lap in the same car, and one just roaming in the backseat. Another one was transported in my sisters Ford Escort with free range of the backseat.
 

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When the kids were young, we just put them in the cargo area of our small Honda CRV using a cargo barrier so they can't jump over to the passenger side. Now that they are big...depends on the weather...nice days we fold all the seats down in the CRV and use the cargo barrier or bad weather...in our pick up with a large cage. We can only hold two of our goats and we have four. We need a trailer....
 

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I've used the pickup with campershell method when I am able to, but I normally strap them down and cross tie them (like a doggie) in the back of my pickup. (I'm working on getting a better method of transportation)...

LOTS of funny stories with that...

I once had a lady roll down her window and ask what "it" was...

I once had two guys in a big rig baa'ing back and forth with the goat at a stop light...

I once had two germans jump out of the car at the gas station and ask if "it" was a sheep... their tour guide said the goat was more popular than the Midway!
 

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I brought my Lamancha home in the backseat of my Corola.It was a 2 hour drive and I had to remove goat berries from the car the next day.I now have a pickup truck.......Grid
 

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When we got our 1st 2 we brought them home in the front seat of our truck. 1 on my lap and the other on the floor board. The 3rd in a dog crate and the 4th in my lap. LOL
 

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I used to transport everyone in the back of my minivan, loose but with someone holding a leash for safety. When we had to get to the fair with the van in the shop, we just let Bambi (full sized nubian) ride in the back of the car with the kids...ended up fine but with a husbands good humor slightly bent out of shape, since it was his car and he really doesn't care much for all our critters.....the goat was only one of the many transported to the fair in his car that year...chickens, ducks, rabbits.....

Dog crates are perfect though...for their safety and relative cleanliness. I now put a tarp down under the crate in the back of the Durango and use bungee cords on the cargo hooks to keep from having everyone all shook up by the end of the ride.
 
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