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10-20-2016, 07:20 PM
I have one wether (Finn) who was used as a breeding buck for one season. He was wethered at nine months. My guy never got aggressive so I can't speak about the attitude, but all the nasty buck smell and most of the unpleasant buck behaviors disappeared. The smell disappeared almost immediately along with all the extra hair and dark buck coloration. The behaviors, on the other hand, took longer to go away and some have not entirely disappeared even though he only had one rut and it was two years ago. He took several months to stop spraying my husband every time he got excited. He has also come into "rut" during fall these last two years. Right now he's out there chasing and mounting girls, putting his nose under them every time they pee, swatting, and running around with his tongue hanging out. But at least he isn't spraying himself and he doesn't stink even if his nose is yellow from sniffing the girls' behinds. I doubt he would act this way if he were kept exclusively with wethers. He doesn't mount the other boys any more like he did when he was a buck.
We had one other boy (Pac-Man) who was a breeding buck for one season and he mellowed out very nicely. He came into a semblance of "rut" in the fall like Finn, but mostly it just meant he was suave with the ladies during fall and kept them from running down the road to my neighbor's buck pen in search of love. Pac-Man was never aggressive as a buck either, though, so I'm not sure if a buck with an attitude would settle down or not. I expect most would settle down pretty well, but I am sure some would retain a nasty attitude. If the goat is nice enough I say it might be worth the gamble. You could probably have him castrated with a burdizzo or a callicrate bander very inexpensively.
We had one other boy (Pac-Man) who was a breeding buck for one season and he mellowed out very nicely. He came into a semblance of "rut" in the fall like Finn, but mostly it just meant he was suave with the ladies during fall and kept them from running down the road to my neighbor's buck pen in search of love. Pac-Man was never aggressive as a buck either, though, so I'm not sure if a buck with an attitude would settle down or not. I expect most would settle down pretty well, but I am sure some would retain a nasty attitude. If the goat is nice enough I say it might be worth the gamble. You could probably have him castrated with a burdizzo or a callicrate bander very inexpensively.