Goats. Sell her or keep her

[H Diamond]

I posted this mainly to see if this is normal behavior for the herd quen.

Yes it can be.

 

[seminolewind]

Please keep this on topic

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Goat pecking orders can be vicious. All of my goats are related, but I have always had to separate them to feed them (otherwise they fight over the food; the higher ranking animals attack those lower down and the food gets spilled into the dirt, where they don't want to eat it), and provide lots of separate areas for shelter. For years, I have said, "How many goats can you put in a 14' x 14' horse stall? Just one - if it's Spike." (He was a wether, so I guess maybe he was a queen of a different sort).

So yes, if you have a small, unrelated newcomer in your herd, that the top goat is making his life a misery sounds pretty normal to me. And based on my experience, if you take her out, the next goat to win the throne will do the same thing.

 

[rainbowhatchery]

Sadly sometimes certain animals are just outright mean and you have to get rid of them, you cant really train mean out of them.