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01-13-2015, 10:36 AM
LOL great minds think exactly opposite! 
I guess I look at this question with what the worst outcome in mind. Having raised quite a few bucks over the years, I just know what they can do to each other when motivated. But there are a ton of things that can influence the outcome. Even horn shape can change up outcome. Legion learned to hook other goats under the belly from Lincoln and tends to do it just about anytime another goat presents to him. And his horns are perfectly formed to do damage doing so. That alone would make me never trust him with another goat. And he is a wether. The two bucks we have now are evenly matched and both aggressive during the breeding season especially. They would literally battle until one of them was dead. Then if you get a jerk goat that just beats up his pen mate just because he can, that verges on the cruelty level to pen him with another goat. So I always suggest never to pen intact bucks together.
And as for the bucky behavior. I only consider that being the smell and the trying to mate. Everything else is just boy behavior
I guess I look at this question with what the worst outcome in mind. Having raised quite a few bucks over the years, I just know what they can do to each other when motivated. But there are a ton of things that can influence the outcome. Even horn shape can change up outcome. Legion learned to hook other goats under the belly from Lincoln and tends to do it just about anytime another goat presents to him. And his horns are perfectly formed to do damage doing so. That alone would make me never trust him with another goat. And he is a wether. The two bucks we have now are evenly matched and both aggressive during the breeding season especially. They would literally battle until one of them was dead. Then if you get a jerk goat that just beats up his pen mate just because he can, that verges on the cruelty level to pen him with another goat. So I always suggest never to pen intact bucks together.And as for the bucky behavior. I only consider that being the smell and the trying to mate. Everything else is just boy behavior