Buyers are responsible for covering all costs associated with transportation. This includes shipping charges, crates, health certificates (CVI), and any state-specific tests or requirements.
We are located in Mishicot, Wisconsin 54228; about 1.5 hours north of Milwaukee. We are willing to work with ground transporters, but might not be able to take off work to meet them if they don’t offer door-to-door service.
We are happy to drive up to 45 minutes for free. We head down to the Chicago area pretty regularly and could meet along our route for free, too. Any further/other directions, and we would need to figure out our work schedules, but are willing to transport for $1/mile both ways – that’s about the cost of gas for our truck.
We have worked with a few ground transporters. Our favorites and also a couple we haven’t used but have heard awesome things about are listed below:
RedRiver Transport
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080218105909
The couple who run RedRiver own goats themselves and know how to handle any emergencies that might arise along the trip. They have a large livestock trailer and do pickups and drop-offs near major highways along their route, so scheduling might be a little harder, but we highly recommend them for people who can make it work.
Nigerian Goat Express
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064778710475
Dave takes excellent care of his door-to-door transports and provides updates during the whole trip! He only moves NDs or kids because they stay inside his vehicle with him. We really appreciated his constant communication and that he was able to stick to a pretty tight schedule.
Brian Barlow
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004159907900
Brian is always one of peoples’ top recommendations whenever someone asks for transporters. He went out of his way to help us try to get a kid he couldn’t reach on his own, and is just an all around nice guy who cares about the animals in his care. During our first transport with him, he ran into a severe snowstorm that spanned almost all of the upper Midwest. For everyone’s safety and with all of our permission, he dropped off our kids with a highly trusted breeder who cared for them and kept them warm until the storm passed. We were really impressed by his communication and thought towards our precious cargo and we definitely recommend him! He does door-to-door service when he can and keeps kids in individual crates in a van, so they’re in a nice climate controlled environment. Someone warned us that he lets his charges mingle and doesn’t care about biosecurity and we really appreciated that notice, but it wasn’t our experience at all.
Bayli (Howard) Wynter
https://www.facebook.com/bayli.howard
We have not used Bayli’s service yet, but she helped us find a transporter when we needed one & she couldn’t make the trip. We really appreciated that!
Katherine Sancuk
https://www.facebook.com/katherine.sancuk/
Katherine is super nice and has an awesome trailer! She raises goats and horses, and takes excellent care of the critters she’s transporting. You must be ultra-flexible with her ever-evolving schedule, though, as she’s taking care of her own farm and transports.
Seabow Livestock
https://www.facebook.com/seabow.transport
Super nice people from Indiana and their trailer is very nice! You must be flexible about your schedule because they can be hard to pin down on timing.
Lippert Transport
https://www.facebook.com/jonathandlippert
Again, another we haven’t used, but we’ve heard nothing but positive reviews!
Colleen Peacock
https://www.facebook.com/colleen.peacock.18
We hate to have an avoid list because stuff happens and she was really sweet, but Colleen transported a buckling from CA to us in WI, and the trip took 9 days – for most transporters, it’s about 4-5. Again, stuff happens and we try to be understanding, but she only told us what was going on with the timeline when we asked, and made & broke multiple scheduling commitments along the way. We had no idea when she was coming until the day before, and it turned out to be right when we had a medical appointment scheduled. The poor buckling arrived terrified and sick with shipping fever. There have been many stories like ours, plus allegations of SEVERE animal abuse.