Rural Gardening: Goatherding, 0 by SHE_WOLFIE

SHE_WOLFIE wrote:
As far as disbudding goes, do it!!!! you will be much happier and so will your goats.I have found that a buck with horns becomes the bully really fast.We lost our favorite goat a nubian buck (Jack sparrow) due constant bullying by a younger male with horns(Mojo)Mojo is a nubian boar cross our first baby born on our farm as we bought his mother Demi noir already bred.When he was about a year and a half he realized he had horns an the whole herd(who are mosly disbudded) has to bow down to him.We have threatend him with freezer camp many a time but we love him and have not done it as of yet.When we lost Jack sparrow I decided i will never have another goat with horns.Also they will get stuck in the fence and if ya dont check them several times a day you can lose a goat if they are stuck.They also can hurt each other and you if they are having a bad day and decide to butt another goat or you.This picture shows Mojo and his horns.He is the nubian boar cross the white goat with the black head.