I have a pen of 9 sweet little 50# PB does. Right along side is a pen of 3 kid bucks. they're fighting and butting heads and mounting each other, blubbering at the girls. Then my big buck gets out and he's been blubbering around the little girls for 2 days. By that I mean, he was running around the pen on the outside, fighting with the little bucks in their pen throught the fencing and trying desperately to get to the girls. Knowing I was going to drag him back to his own barn, he wasn't about to let me catch him.
I go down yesterday to feed. Horror! Here's the 3 buck kids running amuck! the old buck was so upset and running around the outside, pushing the gate and sticking his head in. He just couldn't get over it. Just couldn't figure a way to get in.
The little girls are running around and around in the doe pen trying to get away from them. But there's no way to get away from 3 horny little bucks. One of the larger ones seems to be in heat but wasn't standing. And a couple of the other little girls had managed to get into the buck side. They were too spooked to let me catch them.
One person can only do so much.
I managed to get the three buck kids back on their side but the does wouldn't cooperate so I had to leave them in on the buck side, too. Poor things. They were jumped and mobbed and molested continuously until someone could go down and help me separate them.
Yeah, it's crazy all right. I don't really think anything got bred, but you know goats! It'll be over in a month or two. TG.
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This time of year sure is hard on the fences! Our older buck is great with people, but he gets "jealous" of the young bucklings if they get too close to the doe pen. He shows them who is boss by ramming and smashing the fence to make the young bucklings scatter and run away. I think I have them all seperated out around the farm enough now to save the fences, but it is hard to manage 8 bucks. (Can't wait for some of the younger ones to sell!) Love your blog, you have some very pretty goats.
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