Glenna saw a post on my Antiquity Oaks Facebook page and said I should share it here, so I figured why not! After all, y'all probably have some funny stories to share too!
Originally, I just posted this:
Tip for the day ... NEVER try to walk a buck through a doe pen by holding onto his collar.
And then someone had to ask what happened, and this is the story ...
He almost pulled me to the ground and just took off chasing after various does. He was especially enamored with one that had been in heat the day before, so she wanted nothing to do with him and was running non-stop. I was also running and screaming at him -- as if that would do any good! After about ten minutes of running, I finally caught him. At one point, a headline actually flashed through my brain -- "Woman found dead of heart attack in goat pasture!" But I survived, and he didn't breed anyone.
Of course, I can't imagine anything topping what happened a few years ago when my daughter and I were putting a buck back into a stall with another buck right after breeding. The doe that had just been bred was standing in the aisle of the barn. The second buck got out, and I dropped to my knees and literally threw myself over the doe's back end, wrapping my arms around her neck (so she couldn't run away from me) and screaming, "Nooooo!"
Surely, others have some funny stories to share!
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lol......well don't know about that, but he does it more towards his tail.........I really need to video tape it, he makes us all laugh, the little bugger.......lol.
Margaret Langley said:
That's funny. Maybe that is his way of trying to get attention drawn to his family jewels. You know like he is pointing at them with his head since they don't point with their hooves, while he makes big boy sounds and gestures. I can just see him saying something like "look at what I got, see my junk" to the does or trying to let Frankie know he thinks he is the more virile "buck on the block". Just saying, you know how some young males are these days!
One of our bucks does this funny thing during the rut. I often wonder if other bucks do this. CJ and Frankie are in the same buck pen together. During rut of course they both do their bucky things, sneezing, blubbering, head butting each other and all those other nasty things boys do...lol.
CJ naturally carries his tail curled up on his back and to the side. During rut he struts and swaggers around like a he-man, its really cute, but masculine looking. But with CJ, I don't know if he gets bored with Frankie, and on occasion he will do the sneezing and blubbering at his own self! He will walk along and all of sudden turn around and but his head slightly down with his tongue part way out of his mouth and try to face his tail and blubber and make the sneeze sounds at it. He really doesn't chase it, but turns to face, blubbering and particularly using the alarm sneeze as he stands there.
With all his long hair surly there is another buck back there.....lol! He will do it a few times in a row and then go about harassing Frankie.......lol. It cracks us up! Yeah right CJ, there is another buck back there......lol
That is TO funny!
Oh, that is funny!
I bred my doe Cupcake today, to my buckling Shamrock. He's a big and mature 5 month old, and he did his job very easily. I let them "get together" 3 or 4 times. It was very funny though, because he went back and forth from no nonsense breeding buck to kid trying to nurse off the doe. Cupcake was a bit bewildered by this big stud attempting to nurse from her, like she wasn't sure what to do. My human kids were in stitches! :)
I have so much respect for Temple Grandin, and I believe she knows what she is talking about! It is interesting that you had that experience first hand. Did you have the chance to share that with her? I plan on dam raising my kids, however should the need to bottle feed arise I will have this information in my back pocket. Those boys will be wethers! I am a small woman, and even a Nigerian buck, when looking to breed, can be a handful. Thank you for sharing. I hope to hear her speak one day myself.
Very interesting!
Yeah, when most people talk about making minis, they don't mention the difficulty some ND bucks can have breeding standard does, except when the doe is young and about his size. I once had a buck try and try and finally give up after about 15 minutes -- because the doe was being uncooperative and wouldn't let me help -- and then the buck turned to me, looked me in the eye, and started blubbering. I said, "Oh, no, you don't mister!" And then he jumped on me! Thank goodness he's a ND and not a standard buck, so it wasn't any worse than being jumped on by a large dog. But he had decided that I was his new girlfriend and started acting very bucky towards me, doing everything they normally do to does with the foot stomping, blubbering, jumping on me, and the worst -- licking my face! If you've ever owned a buck, you would certainly not want him licking your face because he is always peeing on his own face and licking it!
That is the only buck I've ever had that happen with, and ever after that, he would always try to jump up and lick me in the face when he saw me. After hearing Temple Grandin's talk at Mother Earth News Fair, I'm wondering if it's because he was a bottle baby. She talks about how bottle-fed male ruminants view themselves as the same species as people, which means they will try to mate women and face off and challenge men because they see them as rivals. The #1 cause of human deaths with livestock are caused by bulls, and usually they were bottlefed as babies. (Just in case any horse people are wondering -- she quickly added that horses cause more injuries, but bulls cause the largest number of deaths.) So, she was very adamant that if you are ever in a position where you have to bottlefeed a male ruminant, they should be castrated.
I cant stop laughing...what a scene that must have been!!!
My girlfriend just bred her Lamancha to a Nigerian buck. Let's just say he had some trouble.... Poor guy tried and tried...so she had to walk her doe to a bank to help the guy out. What a blow to the ego!
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