Aggressive Goat Question

[tapirtoes]

Hello, I have four goats who are currently fighting. Possum continuously bullies Patch, and will not stop ramming into his side. Patch doesn’t even start the fights and gets too scared to eat, and cowers a lot of the time. Should we try two different feeders? Should we get rid of Possum? Possum is the only one actively fighting the rest, but especially Patch. Just worried because Patch won’t eat now. I’d appreciate any help. Thank you!

 

[cassie]

Could you put Possum in another pen?

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Is Possum a wether or a buck? I have this issue with my doeling and my debudded wether, Snickers, the Wether, butts Skittles, the doeling, away from the hay container so I toss a bit to the side for her to eat, it’s a dominance thing, the “alpha” eats before the others, he did this with his recently deceased friend who was also a debudded wether, I think one way to stop the dominance thing is to trim the beard off the goat, I’d have to search it up to be sure though.
He will eventually let her eat after he’s eaten enough though, he also butts her when he gets excited.