Ridgetop
Herd Master
1. After they are bred, you can keep them together BUT if you are milking and drinking the milk, the milk will take on the taste of the buck odor. If the does recycle (come back in season after being bred the first time), Romeo will rebreed the does without you realizing that they recycled and rebred. This means you will not have a definite kidding date for the does.
2. Romeo will be fine alone in a pasture next to the does. When they are cycling he will call for them and they will call to him. They can see each other and talk through the fence so he will be happy. If you want to put them together when rutting season is over, he will live comfortably with the does and kids. The does will protect their kids, and he won't be big enough to do any damage this year. Just watch them and if he gets aggressive with the kids or does as he gets older, move him back to his own pen.
3. At 3 months old his rutting smell will hardly be noticeable. Every year the smell will get worse (as he gets older). By 3 or 4 years, in his prime, he will be the smelliest. The smell can be controlled after rutting by bathing him after rutting season ends and clipping the hair that he pees on. That is usually the back of his forelegs, his belly, and his beard.
You didn't ask, but at 3 months he might not be sexually mature to breed. By 5 months he should be mature but might not be able to breed more than 1 doe every few days. He should certainly be able to produce kids by November. I would pen him next to the girls and watch him interact through the fence. When he starts getting excited about them, and they will be seducing him too LOL, then you can try putting them together on lead ropes. That way, you can control their interaction if the doe isn't ready and butts him, etc.
2. Romeo will be fine alone in a pasture next to the does. When they are cycling he will call for them and they will call to him. They can see each other and talk through the fence so he will be happy. If you want to put them together when rutting season is over, he will live comfortably with the does and kids. The does will protect their kids, and he won't be big enough to do any damage this year. Just watch them and if he gets aggressive with the kids or does as he gets older, move him back to his own pen.
3. At 3 months old his rutting smell will hardly be noticeable. Every year the smell will get worse (as he gets older). By 3 or 4 years, in his prime, he will be the smelliest. The smell can be controlled after rutting by bathing him after rutting season ends and clipping the hair that he pees on. That is usually the back of his forelegs, his belly, and his beard.
You didn't ask, but at 3 months he might not be sexually mature to breed. By 5 months he should be mature but might not be able to breed more than 1 doe every few days. He should certainly be able to produce kids by November. I would pen him next to the girls and watch him interact through the fence. When he starts getting excited about them, and they will be seducing him too LOL, then you can try putting them together on lead ropes. That way, you can control their interaction if the doe isn't ready and butts him, etc.