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02-21-2017, 02:36 PM
Hello and welcome to our forum. Sorry your post didn't show up at first... we have an anti-spam system that requires a person's first post to be approved. I deleted the multiple copies. 
RUDE RUDY! I'm sorry he's giving you such grief. I have one that also learned to boss horses and kids and be a general pest and sadly he's never completely gotten over it. We can control our mean wether with a squirt gun and on his really bad days we use a shock collar. Our guy is manageable and always well-behaved when he's wearing a halter or working, but we've never been able to completely "cure" him when he's loose in the pasture. Ours is not as bad as yours sounds though. However, your goat is also only two years old and ours was aggressive much longer before we started working with him. Someone on another thread here suggested hugging your goat every time he acts aggressive toward you. I'm not sure if it will work for your guy, but it apparently worked for theirs. Some people with aggressive goats have had success spraying them with a water hose when the goat comes at them aggressively.
It's not good that your goat is attacking your horses. Does he have horns? I've heard of really aggressive goats stabbing horses in the belly. I also know that at some point one or more of your horses will probably attack back and then your goat may be seriously injured or killed (and he'd deserve it, but still). Do you have any other goats besides Rudy? I think one reason our goat became aggressive was because he had no other goat companions to play, fight, and butt heads with. He tried to do this with horses and they don't play the same way so it caused friction and aggression between them. And once a goat learns that he can boss horses, it's really really hard to teach him not to get a thrill from bossing everyone all the time. I think bossing horses really goes to their heads. My best suggestion would be to get him a goat companion of comparable size and weight so they can fight and play the way goats are supposed to do and get him away from the horses.
RUDE RUDY! I'm sorry he's giving you such grief. I have one that also learned to boss horses and kids and be a general pest and sadly he's never completely gotten over it. We can control our mean wether with a squirt gun and on his really bad days we use a shock collar. Our guy is manageable and always well-behaved when he's wearing a halter or working, but we've never been able to completely "cure" him when he's loose in the pasture. Ours is not as bad as yours sounds though. However, your goat is also only two years old and ours was aggressive much longer before we started working with him. Someone on another thread here suggested hugging your goat every time he acts aggressive toward you. I'm not sure if it will work for your guy, but it apparently worked for theirs. Some people with aggressive goats have had success spraying them with a water hose when the goat comes at them aggressively.
It's not good that your goat is attacking your horses. Does he have horns? I've heard of really aggressive goats stabbing horses in the belly. I also know that at some point one or more of your horses will probably attack back and then your goat may be seriously injured or killed (and he'd deserve it, but still). Do you have any other goats besides Rudy? I think one reason our goat became aggressive was because he had no other goat companions to play, fight, and butt heads with. He tried to do this with horses and they don't play the same way so it caused friction and aggression between them. And once a goat learns that he can boss horses, it's really really hard to teach him not to get a thrill from bossing everyone all the time. I think bossing horses really goes to their heads. My best suggestion would be to get him a goat companion of comparable size and weight so they can fight and play the way goats are supposed to do and get him away from the horses.