Most all myotonic goats seem to come from an origin in Tennessee, in the 1880s. White and Plaskett reported seeing these goats in five counties in Tennessee- Marshall, Giles, Lawrence, Maury, and Coffee. There were also goats in Texas that were brought over from Giles county in Tennessee, solely for a farmer who claimed to know of the goats existence to prove it as fact to his neighbors. The goats were unable to jump over normal sized fences, and found holes in the ground to crawl underneath the fences, similar to a hog. This unusual behavior made the goats more desirable in this era, as many farmers used stone walls for fences, therefore containing their goats. In Marshall country, there was also a buck goat brought over from Canada. The A. & M. College in Texas owned a zoo during 1926-1927 in which a myotonic goat was presented. Dr. White (in a letter to the author) stated that in the summer of 1929 in Egypt, he witnessed several fainting goats between the Suez Canal and the Palestine border. He also stated that he shipped some of the goats from Tennessee to a professor by the name of Nagel, at the Nervous Disease Institute in Germany for studies.