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We've got two goats you can't touch with a 10 foot pole, and one got somewhere it wasn't supposed to be the other day.. I walked wide around it, opened a gate, then walked back around and started toward it. Naturally it turned and went somewhat toward the gate, away from me. From there, it was just a matter of knowing where to go to make it uncomfortable and influence its direction of travel.. I drove it around like an R/C car from about 20' away until it went back through the gate, no problem. That's how cattle get worked around here, too...you use the flight zone to your advantage.
However....I knew that goat wasn't going to fly! In my experience, a goat will always obey they no-flying rule!
Not so much with chickens, though. They're in control of the horizontal, and the vertical, so to speak..
I may try to get them a little more socialized, now that you mention it, because I'd kinda been thinking more along the lines of working flighty land-dwellers. Different ballgame now.
We've got two goats you can't touch with a 10 foot pole, and one got somewhere it wasn't supposed to be the other day.. I walked wide around it, opened a gate, then walked back around and started toward it. Naturally it turned and went somewhat toward the gate, away from me. From there, it was just a matter of knowing where to go to make it uncomfortable and influence its direction of travel.. I drove it around like an R/C car from about 20' away until it went back through the gate, no problem. That's how cattle get worked around here, too...you use the flight zone to your advantage.
However....I knew that goat wasn't going to fly! In my experience, a goat will always obey they no-flying rule!
Not so much with chickens, though. They're in control of the horizontal, and the vertical, so to speak..
I may try to get them a little more socialized, now that you mention it, because I'd kinda been thinking more along the lines of working flighty land-dwellers. Different ballgame now.