Our goal is to encourage you to work with and spend time with that wonderful animal out in your yard/field/pen. Goats are wonderfully intelligent animals that deserve much more of your time then most receive.

We also hope to guide you toward the correct way of training and interacting with a goat. Training goats is not rocket science. They learn quick and love to be with you pleasing you.

Goats can a do make great companion animals that excel at Therapy animals. Goats visiting Old Folks Homes can be more fun then taking a dog. The more your goat can do, pack, pull, tricks, the more likely you will be invited to preform. Most people are so glad to see what they remember as a farm animal that they may have had when they were younger.

Some goat "gigs" even pay. But plan on volunteering your time. Word of mouth is going to be your best selling points for getting those paying jobs with your animals.

Any breed of goat, or mix there, of can be a Working Goat. Of course the smaller breeds will not be able to pull the bigger carts and or wagons or pull or carry as much weight. Nubian's, I have been told, can be a bit, well, like Royalty, don't want to work and will a lot fuss about it. Saanan's can be seen from a further distance so trail visibility is better then say a light brown that might be camouflaged. A goat that looks like a deer or antelope in Hunting Season, can be a very big risk. But any goat can be trained to pull, some, as individuals will be better or easier to train then others.

If you have a goat that does look like a deer or antelope, please put orange on the goat while out on the trail (you should always wear orange when out during hunting season too). Make your goat very visible.

Some goats, like in this photo of Deron and Otis making Goat Sawbuck Saddles, think that their help is needed with all kinds of work.

Please visit often as this site, as well as www.workingllamas.com and www.marnasmenagerie.com, are under construction. Thanks for your visit!

Marna Kazmaier - marna@workinggoats.com

We are continually working on this website. We are hoping to be working on expanding our working goat pages, as with our other site, this one is a work in progress.