treeclimber233
Loving the herd life
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I posted a while back about my Pyr attacking my buck. I have been really watching to see what triggers his behavior. He has food aggression so he gets after the goats when they get too close to his food which I understand. I have one doe in the pen now that will not leave his food alone. If he did not guard his bowl she would push him out of it. Well the other night he went way overboard chasing her away from his bowl and chased her almost all the way back to the barn. I intervened and chased him into the stall screaming at him. He lay down and tried to hide under the hay. He did not bother any goat for a while after that. Since then it has rained and rained so around my barn is a muddy mess. When I tried to get into the feed room my buck was in the way standing on the board in front of the door and I could not get the door open. It took a bit of shoving and smacking him to get him out of the way. My dog was standing back watching. When I got the buck moved enough to get in the door the buck immediately jumped onto the board and I had problems getting back out. My dog ran over and chased him away and then ran off and sat down. Last night my buck was standing on the gate (which opens into the pen) and I could not get in the gate. I would kick the gate and he would get down then immediately get back on the gate. After several rounds of this my dog ran over and chased the buck away from the gate. Then ran off again and sat down watching me from a distance. Is it my imagination or is he trying to make the buck behave? Only "attacking" to get his point across?