Do I keep buckling a buck?

[Hangtown Farms]

x2 It's an individual goat to goat experience. It also depends on your tolerance level...how do you feel about an animal that pees all over it's self including it's own face and mouth?

well I wouldn't give it a kiss thats for sure

 

[goatboy1973]

Unless your buckling is going to be used for breeding purposes, I would wether him. The ebb and flow of testosterone in male farm animals is what causes absurd, outrageous, embarrassing, and potentially dangerous behavior. If you take away the very things that produce testosterone (testicles) then you eliminate the whole problem.

 

[momof2redheads]

Thank you everyone! I think I have decided to keep him a buck and breed him.

 

[goatboy1973]

Thank you everyone! I think I have decided to keep him a buck and breed him.

Good choice. If you are producing good herdsires keep them and use them to breed to all your does except his siblings and mother and use him as much as you possibly can as long as you can until it gets too confusing to figure who he is related to and then either sell him as a herdsire or wether or pet. This is how you "lock in" good traits such as gentleness, good udders, high milk production etc...