Great idea. Did you know that goats make great pack animals? They have to be selected, some won't tolerate it, and then trained. A good goat in this area will get along quite well foraging, with a high-value supplement for vitamins and so on.

Met an absolutely gorgeous woman on the trail once. She and her two barely teen-age sons were through-hiking with 5 goats, two veterans, a trainee and two goatlets who couldn't leave their mothers yet. Very well behaved animals, I believe the trained hikers were carrying about 60 pounds each which is quite a payload.

And the goat I used to own was good-natured, loving and smart. I'd get on my hands and knees and rare at her. She'd rare a bit and hit my hands with her horns. When I put on my hard-hat and did the same thing she'd hit it harder. Would ride in the back of the pickup, head looking over the cab, and loved it. Great animal.