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     Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 109 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.111.205.236 Rating: N/A |
This discussion is not really an emergency and should be continued on the non emergency goat situation forum. As moderator I will answer this post here and then ask that the remainder of this discussion be moved to the non emergency situation forum. We have discussed the problems you have controlling your goats before on the old forums. YOU NEED TO GET SOMEONE TO HELP YOU. If your family wishes to use these goats for their own breeding program they should be taking a hand in caring for them now. Not leaving you to do all the hard and dangerous work by yourself. I think sheep halters and goat halters are the same. They are essentially small cow halters. I suspect that with the way a boer goat's nose is shaped it may be hard to get the halter to fit right. You will have to experiment with the adjustments, perhaps making sure th fit around the nose is as high toward the eye as possible to prevent slipping off. And as with horses and cows they have to be halter broken or taught to accept them and be lead by them. Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Amber J. (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 69.72.49.61 Rating: N/A |
ok, iv fuond two plains for a stanchion, that i thikn i can pull of. However last year i bauoght two sheep halters in hops of getting more controll, but my boys fought them so much that the nose peac wuold just slip right off. Was that because they where sheep halters? (i got sheep halters cuz that was all my local farm store had...except horse halters which i knew wuold not work) | ||
| Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 88 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.111.205.236 Rating: N/A |
You can build your own milk stand there are lots of plans on the web. Just do a google search for milking stanchion, or goat milking stanchion. You will have to get the upper hand or they will soon learn they can push you around. A halter may do the trick. Bucks can get very aggressive this time of year, especially a sex starved one. Build a stand, put it up against a wall, when you have the goat in it you can push him up against the wall to hold him steady. Or tie their head to a fence, tie it a bit high to keep him off balance and push him against the fence to control him. You may need a buddy to push the goat against the fence while you trim. Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Amber J. (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 69.72.50.108 Rating: N/A |
I have two male goats. One is a buck, and the other a wether. They are my first goats ever, and iv had them for about a year and a half now. But i have a BIG problume... i can no logger trim thier feet! When i first got the wether he was only a few months old, so i we got along well enuogh that i cuold trim his feet will he was eating grass. But his brother (the buck) was nearly 8 months old wheni got him, and wanted nonthing to do with me unless i had feed. so when i finaly got the buck catchable i had to start tieing them to the fence so they wuold stay still for triming. But now i cant even do that because the wether hates being tuoched anywhere but his head now, as does the buck. I even tried cross tieing them on some old t-posts, made out ok with the buck. But the wether was histaricale!!! Every time i went anywhere near his rear he tried to run and spin. Iv looked at milk stands but they are to expensive, and i dont know anyone who has one i cuold barrow, to try. Its been at lest 2 months since i trimed my boys feet, and im getting worried.  |