Okay, I'm going to once again show my ignorance. Please remember, ignorance is erased with education.
What exactly are moonspots? I've gotten the impression they are basically small patches of other color as white on brown, maybe consisting of as little as a dozen hairs.
I ask because it is probably time to advertise my bucklings for sale since they are a month old this week. The little buckskin has what I think are moonspots but I don't want to advertise that if they are not.
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If you had him wethered at around 6 to 8 weeks, he would stay much like he is now. I don't know what happens later, if they've started to get "bucky" already. All the wethers I've known are the sweetest. My kids all want one, but I don't have the room or the $ to keep a wether for no other reason that his sweetness, though the little bucklings are so wonderfully sweet it would be easy to do. :)
So if he is wethered, he won't get shaggy like that and look, basically, like he does now? He is such a beautiful little guy.
How early would he need to be wethered to keep him "trim?"
This is his dad:
http://adgagenetics.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=D001465252
One of his dad's daughter is here:
http://www.angelfire.com/super2/poppypatch/moreseniordoes.html
And bucks do get more hair than does or whethers. Mine look so scraggly right now with all their winter coat coming out!
Thank you, Margaret. So I am guessing the bottom photo that the tan is the moonspots while the goat is brown and with with black, correct?
Yes, reluctantly, I will advertise little black buckling. I wish so I could keep him for a variety of reasons. He is so pretty and has such a king personality. He is boss for sure and with his bloodline, someone will get quick a little buck so wethering him would be an awful thing to do. Even with a farm, I could not keep him since everyone I have is related to him.
Both of the bucks I have access to get terribly shaggy and rough looking (as most bucks I have seen are) though the wether I had over the winter a couple of years ago stayed short-haired like the does. Is it a buck thing or an individual goat thing?
First things first! I don't see any in this pic! That doesn't mean he doesn't have any. If you mean those little white spots over the ribs NO, they are not moonspots!
Moonspots are roundish, ovalish shapes usually a distinct 3rd and/or 4th color and NEVER WHITE! Although they can be a solid color with moonspots in a second color!Second, here's some visual aid for you:
These are my mini boar twins! The pic on the left is a little tricky! He has the typical red on the head etc. like a boar goat but also has a chocolate colored moonspot on 3 of his feet above his hooves one on the inside of one leg and one within the red on the other side of his face. He also has gold circles around both eyes! I ain't sure what those gold circles are all about! But it is really cute and gives him a raccoon effect! I think that you can see that his sister has a lot of obvious chocolate moonspots! 
The last pic is of Quill (their dad...my sr. buck) You see the strange large spots on his back, withers and chest? Those are moonspots also! This little stinker has thrown some gorgeous kids! He had a lot of awesome light gold kids last year too! So that should give you a good visual idea and I am not sure where it is right now but that link we have had posted a few times to the site with the color descriptions had a section on there about the moonspots also!
It is sometimes confusing when you are new to moonspots, but once you get use to it they aren't as hard to tell from regular spots! And I have seen a few advertised with moonspots that had no obvious ones. So I gotta give you a pat on the back for wanting to make sure! That is very good of you! He is very cute by the way. Are you going to advertise the black one too!