I raised dairy goats for over 40 years and I never, and I mean NEVER did I have an aggressive buck or one that even challenged me except once. That was a young buckling with an oversized ego and an undersized brain. He butted me. Not hard, but he did butt me. He never did it again but then I...
Bucks pee on their heads. Have other unattractive habits, too. However, aggression is another thing entirely. Never had much of a problem with my dairy bucks no matter how much in rut they were. If given a chance they would blubber at me and rub against me but they would never challenge me...
Maybe. Maybe not. I have had a lot more trouble with agression issues from bucks that were with the does than those that were separated from them. I think the main problem with this fellow is that he wasn't taught manners when he was little and now he thinks he is a lot bigger and more...
You don't have to tell him that.
By the way, you might try leading him around a bit every day and insist he behave on the lead rope. Anything to civilize him and teach him some manners.
The fainting won't hurt him. Even if it did, this behavior has got to stop. If you just hit him he is going to think you are challenging him and that he needs to try harder to assert his dominence. Putting him on the ground shows him you are the dominent one. If you can't get though to him...
I never had trouble with an aggressive buck except for once. This fellow was young and stupid and he thought he was much higher on the pecking order than I thought he was. He butted me. Once. I was furious. I grabbed him by two fistfuls of hide and hair, picked him up bodily and dumped him...