My family started me on goats. My Dad decided one day to get some and saw an ad for dwarf goats. It might have been fine with dwarf goats if that was what we had got but the guy sold us full sized goats (first lesson learned: research research research). I took home a 3/4 boer buckling and an alpine doeling. My Dad bought Spots a 1/2 boer doeling.
Everything was fine when they were babies. As time went by my buck Far-run was afraid of us but as he got older he was a sweet little boy and was my favorite once he started wanting attention 24/7. We played a lot together and I thought that was what things were going to be like (Next lesson: Don't trust bucks openly). One morning he headbutted me pretty good and I knew it wasn't playing around. But, I figured maybe he was just in a bad mood. After he bred the girls the first time he just kept getting worse. He started hitting harder, taking every chance to try to get at me even through the fence. I fially wasn't able to get in the pen and had to wait for my mother to feed and water him.
I lost him a few years ago ad even though all the problems he caused me and as much as he seemed to hate me he calmed down when he got sick and I had to care for him again. He was gentle again but only because he was dying.
Now I have his only surviving son Dozer. Dozer was babied by the family and he was sweet and kind up until a year and a half ago. He started headbutting me when I went to check on the goats. FOr the first part of his life Dozer would not get near me at all and that was fine. I had heard if a buck is babied by his owner they are not afraid and more prone to attack as adults.
He is now three and seems worse than his father! He is only 1/2 boer and mean! Unlike his father, Dozer tries to gore me! This started last week and I had enough and harnessed him with a lot of caution. He tugs and tugs at his harness trying to get at me whenever I feed the girls and him. I'm really thinking about breeding him one last time next year and then banding him into a whether.
Everything was fine when they were babies. As time went by my buck Far-run was afraid of us but as he got older he was a sweet little boy and was my favorite once he started wanting attention 24/7. We played a lot together and I thought that was what things were going to be like (Next lesson: Don't trust bucks openly). One morning he headbutted me pretty good and I knew it wasn't playing around. But, I figured maybe he was just in a bad mood. After he bred the girls the first time he just kept getting worse. He started hitting harder, taking every chance to try to get at me even through the fence. I fially wasn't able to get in the pen and had to wait for my mother to feed and water him.
I lost him a few years ago ad even though all the problems he caused me and as much as he seemed to hate me he calmed down when he got sick and I had to care for him again. He was gentle again but only because he was dying.
Now I have his only surviving son Dozer. Dozer was babied by the family and he was sweet and kind up until a year and a half ago. He started headbutting me when I went to check on the goats. FOr the first part of his life Dozer would not get near me at all and that was fine. I had heard if a buck is babied by his owner they are not afraid and more prone to attack as adults.
He is now three and seems worse than his father! He is only 1/2 boer and mean! Unlike his father, Dozer tries to gore me! This started last week and I had enough and harnessed him with a lot of caution. He tugs and tugs at his harness trying to get at me whenever I feed the girls and him. I'm really thinking about breeding him one last time next year and then banding him into a whether.
