SOLVED. Children's/ YA fiction about a boy with goats who is abandoned by his father and goes to work for a cheesemaker. Read late 1980s/early 1990s.

[A]

I read this in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and it was probably an older book. Published in English.

The boy and his father are moving, the father doesn't want to take the goat(s) so he fakes engine trouble by removing a plug/hose(?) in the pickup truck's engine, the boy gets out with the goat(s), somehow he finds a cheese maker (passed on the road?), starts working for him, the cheesemaker is/was an alcoholic, the boy makes the business successful.

I think the boy had a few goats or a goat herd. The boy is probably a teenager or preteen.

[Becca]

Devilhorn by Frank Bonham looks like a match

[A]

yes, that's it, thank you!

Devilhorn by Frank Bonham