Bucks (goats) living together

[Sherry]

I have a 3 year old fainting goat buck and I just got a pygmy buck, not sure of age but is at least 3.

My question is, can the two of them share a pen or will they fight?

The fainting buck is penned away from "the girls", all pygmy does.

 

[AK Michelle]

All my friends that breed their goats keep the bucks together without incident.

I don't have any bucks personally but that is my observation.

 

[Chirpy]

I don't have personal experience but I know three breeders who keep two or three bucks together and haven't had any negative incidences. They do all keep their buck pen quite a ways away from their doe pens.

 

[Sherry]

I wonder if I should let them meet with the fence between them first.

 

[hikerchick]

Well, they will fight a little in the beginning to establish dominance. But that typically doesn't last long.

 

[cassie]

You are usually better off to have more than two bucks together. That way if two of them get in a scuffle the third is likely to interfere and thing don't get real serious.