SDBoerGoats
Loving the herd life
Hi there, been gone a while.....
but still raising Boer goats! I had asked about a buck I owned last year, who was getting agressive and nasty. He was smashing gates, harassing the other bucks etc.
Well, he was sold about 2 months ago. And the lady who bought him calls me all the time telling me about him tearing down fences every day, smashing his head threw the walls of the 3 sided sheds, knocking the 4x4's down holding up the roof. She put him in with her other bucks and he literally will run them to death at feeding time, they are not allowed to eat, no matter how many piles of hay she puts out, he will run them from all of them. He did that at my house too. All my bucks were thin because they couldn't just stand somewhere peacefully and eat. She called again and said that they have put hotwire all around and he still wraps his horns in it and tears it down. He tore down a whole fence line last night again, and there was no one in the pen beside him to fight with. He was in a pen with the does and tore down the fence.
He challenges them, but jumping up and down on his front feet. I think she said he rammed her one day and knocked her down.
He did most of these behaviors at my place too, but he wasn't my buck, he belonged to my SIL. I didn't want him in with my buck, because he ran him all the time too. He would smash the other bucks in the ribs, the younger ones he would ram against our big boulders and hold them there. Now that he is gone, it is so peaceful. Sundance is out with the does right now, and I can go check the does daily and he is like one of the does, he is so calm. I scratch his back for a while when I am checking them. He is never babied or handled much except for trimming etc. But he has a completely different temperament.
Remington is very well bred, and produces well. All our does had been bred to him last year and we had Grand Champion heavyweight, Grand Champion Midweight and Reserve Champion Midweight and Reserve Champion Market Goat at fair this year.
He has a large place where he is, with junipers and boulders. I raised him the same way so I know space isn't his problem. Except he wants it all. If I would lock him up while I was doctoring does, and I mean in a quarter acre paddock where his barn was, he would throw a fit and ram the gate repeatedly. If the gate was opened he would calmly walk through, well, arrogantly I thought. To him a gate is to smash so he can have everything open.
The lady wants to sell him back or trade him back. He wasn't mine to sell, but she did pick him up here. I do not want him back.
Is there perhaps a reason for his behavior? Why is he so arrogant and nasty? I know it's hormones, but he is like this all the time, not just breeding season. He wasn't allowed to get away with this behavior here towards people, I own a cattle prod! But the terrorism of the other goats and destruction of property goes on when you're not there to do anything about it.
Is there any thing that can be done to change him? Is there something you can give bucks to mellow them out?
but still raising Boer goats! I had asked about a buck I owned last year, who was getting agressive and nasty. He was smashing gates, harassing the other bucks etc.Well, he was sold about 2 months ago. And the lady who bought him calls me all the time telling me about him tearing down fences every day, smashing his head threw the walls of the 3 sided sheds, knocking the 4x4's down holding up the roof. She put him in with her other bucks and he literally will run them to death at feeding time, they are not allowed to eat, no matter how many piles of hay she puts out, he will run them from all of them. He did that at my house too. All my bucks were thin because they couldn't just stand somewhere peacefully and eat. She called again and said that they have put hotwire all around and he still wraps his horns in it and tears it down. He tore down a whole fence line last night again, and there was no one in the pen beside him to fight with. He was in a pen with the does and tore down the fence.
He challenges them, but jumping up and down on his front feet. I think she said he rammed her one day and knocked her down.
He did most of these behaviors at my place too, but he wasn't my buck, he belonged to my SIL. I didn't want him in with my buck, because he ran him all the time too. He would smash the other bucks in the ribs, the younger ones he would ram against our big boulders and hold them there. Now that he is gone, it is so peaceful. Sundance is out with the does right now, and I can go check the does daily and he is like one of the does, he is so calm. I scratch his back for a while when I am checking them. He is never babied or handled much except for trimming etc. But he has a completely different temperament.
Remington is very well bred, and produces well. All our does had been bred to him last year and we had Grand Champion heavyweight, Grand Champion Midweight and Reserve Champion Midweight and Reserve Champion Market Goat at fair this year.
He has a large place where he is, with junipers and boulders. I raised him the same way so I know space isn't his problem. Except he wants it all. If I would lock him up while I was doctoring does, and I mean in a quarter acre paddock where his barn was, he would throw a fit and ram the gate repeatedly. If the gate was opened he would calmly walk through, well, arrogantly I thought. To him a gate is to smash so he can have everything open.
The lady wants to sell him back or trade him back. He wasn't mine to sell, but she did pick him up here. I do not want him back.
Is there perhaps a reason for his behavior? Why is he so arrogant and nasty? I know it's hormones, but he is like this all the time, not just breeding season. He wasn't allowed to get away with this behavior here towards people, I own a cattle prod! But the terrorism of the other goats and destruction of property goes on when you're not there to do anything about it.
Is there any thing that can be done to change him? Is there something you can give bucks to mellow them out?
good luck though.
