At What Age Are Bucks Able to Breed?

Yes I can get hold of pallets...not free, but cheap. I'll have to brush up on my Thai language. There's an old man up the road who knows where to get them but the last time we talked I didn't understand 'where' he was telling me to get them from. Will try again The other thing.....I'll have to build this thing myself, so I'll need a super easy plan friends

Edited to add: Another cheap option could be bamboo panels. Photo attached. What do you think? I have seen them used by others here in Thailand for keeping their goats penned in.

The bamboo is neat stuff. How tall is it? Do you need to build a fence too or just a shelter for him?

Actually, I'm pondering on something right now. Maybe I could put him around the back of our house, away from the girls who are at the front of the property. I could put up 2 bamboo walls, one attached to our new concrete wall as the back of his new shelter and one side being the wall of our rabbitry. Hmmm...maybe that could work, and inexpensively too. I'd need to figure out a really simple gate to make. I have the bottoms of a couple IBC units which I could use to keep him up off the ground a wee bit. I'd have to put something over the bottoms because the slats would be too wide and his hooves would possibly fall through in places.
Haha.....an idea is brewing.
Any thoughts to help me out?

Edited to say: Oops...sorry Babs, forgot to answer one of your questions. The bamboo fence comes ready made in 3 meter panels and each panel is about 2 meters high. Sound good enough? I could attach it to long metal stakes and stake those into the ground?

Keep in mind that a buck in rut stinks, and I don't mean a little. It won't be bad the first year and it is only during breeding season, assuming that your goats are seasonal breeders. You said your shortest day is in Dec. On your longest and shortest days what time is sunrise and sunset?

I think the bamboo panels would work well as long as you can make it sturdy enough that he won't rub on it and knock it over.

After looking around on Google and reading some boring articles I did find one that says that Thai native goats have non-seasonal breeding characteristics and good parasite resistance. But she is part Alpine (???) so maybe she won't be entirely non-seasonal.

This is the back wall I could use. Would have to make it taller first with addition of bamboo. The rabbitry is on the right. I'd add some plywood to rabbitry wall, halfway up.


This looking towards the house on the left. This area is overgrown with scrub/weeds and would need clearing first. I could use this as his pen area.


Found these old fencing panels. Could use them for around the pen. Would need some fixing up a bit first.


This is the IBC base. It has the strong plastic base within a cut-down steel frame. The holes in the plastic base are too big though and Jabari's feet would definately fall through, so.......


I have 5 x of these panels. They interlock together like a jigsaw puzzle. I bought them for when the kids were born as the spacing between the wooden floor panels of the goat house is too wide for kids smaller feet. I won't need to use these again until the next batch of kids. There are enough for about 1m x 1m.


And these are bamboo panels we're already using as temporary fencing for our 3 dogs. I'd have to come up with something strong to stake into the ground and then lash these panels onto. I could go with metal or even concrete pillars just dug deep into the ground? The concrete pillars are what we've already used for Khaleesi's pen.

How's that for a plan?

Sounds like the plan in coming together fine and it also sounds like you have some work to do...

Can you get t-posts? I use these all of the time for holding panels and feeders.

Hmmm not sure Babs. I've heard of them, but whether I can find them here or not I don't know. I'll have a look in the next couple of days. I'm recovering from surgery at the moment and have to make a trip into town again tomorrow for a follow up check. Plus trying to get disability cards for 2 of our boys this week. A busy week

I would check into that buck apron that @Goat Whisperer posted, might buy you some time. Recovering from surgery and building goat pens don't go hand and hand. Actually here it seems to work that way...let's just say "it shouldn't go hand and hand". Hope you recover quickly and get things figured out for your boys too.

The T-post are awesome. Once they are in the ground they aren't coming our easily. I fasten kennel panels and gate panels to them all of the time and I have one in the ground next to my buck's feeder as they kept tipping the feeder over so I lashed it to a t-post.

Thanks for the good wishes...and yeah, shouldn't go hand in hand, but often does aye.

I like the sound of these T-posts more and more...will definitely check out if we can get them here. Thanks for the tips.

Me and one of our boys pretty much cleared the area in the photo above this afternoon. Bit more tidying up and it's done, ready for building to begin. He wants to help me, so I think I'll let him

I'll post photos are things start shaping up.