Thank you. I am happy that I came across this video. I like the shirt, also.

I have found this to be true. Both of our very aggressive goats were as sweet as pie to people. They were also from the same line so it seems to be passed on. The aggresive nature sometimes will skip a generation too. So interesting. I also have noticed that the really "mean" ones do not necessarily make it to the herd queen position.

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R they aggressive to Humans?

I raise Nigerian Dwarves for milk and I've had a couple of dirtbags as well, and they can definitely ruin herd dynamics! Thanks for the goat wisdom, one of my dirtbags went to "freezer camp", and I need to send the current one to the same place.

In the early part of this vid, that goat on your right looks almost exactly like my Holden. Fantastic Pack Goat.🐐❤️👍

I totally agree!!! I had a couple dominant does that went down the road. Also, a buck that tortured my does during breeding season.

Just seems to happen no matter what species any farmer deals with. Every animal and man has aggressive nature from time to time and we have the mind to know better lol. Thanks again Goat Guy for sharing your knowledge, time, farm and adventures with us all. 🐐🎥💯👍

Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס'ד

Goats are wonderful creatures, but you do get your bad apples. Our home dairy herd has had a few. Dominance fights and minor scuffles are one thing, but there were punctured udders and gored baby goats. The worst culprits are gone, and the remaining does are hornless.

we separate ours at feeding time because they will bully just one of our does. But the buck swallows his food then runs to the dominant doe runs her off to take her food and then the herd queen as we call her runs the submissive goat off. But I decided to put our buck out of the barn and that keeps the peace in the barn the girls know there place they go to their corner of the barn each but it's when the big buck comes in that he starts the chaos. lol so simple I boot him to his self it stays peaceful. love the video. also when he gets where he is trying to act a fool we use the spray bottle in some case but if it's just hay. we have two hay stations looking to build a 3rd but they stay pretty calm. there is a fuss sometimes but not much.

Sheep to the right, goats to the left.

Yep I agree with you! People try to make goat's behave like dogs or people and they are not at all like that. As you completely know goats are extremely hierarchical and always demand that the others know it and they always remind their heard constantly. I have eight babies that are 6 days old even the queen goat flips them with her horns and tries to bite them. And I know she's just making sure they know she's boss. Goats are extremely complex animals I love my goats and I understand that that's just how they are. Thank you for sharing I always appreciate your videos😊

Maybe I'm dumb but I had Nigerian dwarf goats. All that bread is aggressive. I sold them all. I have Nubians now and no more aggressive goats All of them including my Billy goat are huge teddy bears. I think breeds differ and some are more aggressive than others.

We have a “bad seed” doe…she is so aggressive with our sweetest doe😢 esp during feeding! I separate and supervise but exhausting!

Thanks for the information… it’s hard to watch, but there’s a lot of natural hierarchy behavior people are put off by. Halfway between chickens and Cattle is where I’ve seen goats land generally, “violence” wise. Mostly from observing feral goats… it looks very harsh and primal… but there’s an order to it. Especially watching the head butting horn to horn frontal addressing each other. There isn’t usually any intent to injure. Hooking and horning though, especially with me in the middle feeding, is a WHOLE other story. I’ve watched my 170lb boy square off with my ~60lb doe, and his 30lb buckling. My doe “wins” my buckling “learns”, and as long as I’m not in the middle… it’s all ok, loud but ok.

I have a pygmy goat wether combined with a buck Alpine in the boys yard, and on the other side of the fence (blocked with sheet metal) my two does combined with a pygmy milker and babies, and my Alpine female who's open. I separated the boys and girls, I realizing I didn't want to continue breeding the small breed and wanted to breed larger breeds and chose Alpine's because I already had a female alpine. I also needed access to my milkers without dealing with someone territorial over the spaces and places and female beings I needed control over... When it came to separating males and females I knew I would need a yard mate for my boy, so I got a male Alpine. My alpha pygmy still maintains his alpha position by obsession. He barely lets me pet him anymore he's not mean towards me or anything but he's terrible to his yard mate and he stares and lays by the fence always. If the girls make any noise he's loud about it in response to them and thinks he has to be their hero/protector/alpha head, 24/7. This becomes a real problem for me when it comes to breeding time. Because I want to breed my Alpine's only. So when I did try to put the two together, my pygmy goat got stuck in a rage and started destroying my fences and Gates and getting out and relentlessly and perpetually tried to wreck his yard mate. I would venture to say he was trying to kill him. That day... got him fixed immediately. He's much calmer goat now and, him and his yard mate have even seemingly become comrades as you say, and my buck even defends himself a little bit better than he used to. I'm glad to know that this is all normal, because I do have him posted up for sale and wasn't sure if I was okay with it being that he's never been aggressive towards me and I do just love this boy. But he's now my wether, and my buck is the Alpine. And even still 3 weeks after his surgery, I cannot take my Alpine buck next door to my open female Alpine, without him creating a world of noise chaos, screaming out of jealousy rage and when the girls yell back to him his chaos gets even louder and the girls do to. So he's still trying to run the show over these females even behind the fence. Then when I bring my Alpine back to his yard we both get charged I have to bring him in with a hose and my Alpine doesn't even want to go back into his yard. I have to ward off the charging pygmy who is completely obsessed and possessive over the females. He still lays by the fence and any little peep out of girls, he becomes very loud and chaotic and sometimes stirs it up and then sometimes the females stir things up just responding and talking to him too because they used to be a combined herd. The challenge is around breeding is what makes me want to not have him anymore. I feel like I'm competing for possession over my own goats, aka the females. I almost think that if I could allow two boys, a new wether and my buck to work out some herd dynamic without feeling such strong possession over The girls next door, maybe things would be a little more peaceful during breeding time. I feel like it would be a lot easier if my wether wasn't the one that felt so attached to the females. Wouldn't be a problem if it was the buck either! Because he's the one I want breeding! But truthfully, I need my all my boys to be detached, and excited about them when they're in heat and ready to go, and forget about them when I bring them back to their yard. This from my pygmy, obsession is ridiculous to fight through, I think at this point it's something that's incorporated into his personality that won't go away after what, and won't go away when the girls are in heat and in fact it doesn't go away ever for any reason, I think he's always going to act this way. Even when I'm just taking my book for a walk, the wether acts a fool. Am I completely off my rocker about that? I think it's a problem that they all got so tight before I separated them and brought the new buck in. I did a huge newbie mistake there. But I sure don't want to fight off an angry alpha wether, every time I take him to go for breeding. Frankly I think it makes the females next door uninterested in the buck too, because how in the world are they supposed to even become friendly with their ragingly jealous alpha screaming at the top of his lungs next door, I know I can't ignore it...Any ideas? Top of all that how am I supposed to train, lead train any of them with all the chaos caused by me removing any of the goats from The yards. If he's so much as seize another female who loses mind for the whole day...Maybe if a new wether came in that was not possessive and attached to the females, the only heard Dynamics to establish would be with his relationship with the buck, things would be easier for me? I just don't like competing with my wether for peace in the yard, and it's hard for me to even control my females when they are responding to this alpha. I used to be able to take this boy on walks too but, he starts screaming for the girls and pulling his weight in their direction the second he exits the gate with me on a leash. I almost can't train him because he's too distracted by getting to those girls. 🤦 But with all this chaos between training and alpha issues, it does seem that the boys have worked out their pecking order. So I guess one thing worked out from me getting him fixed. Would you guys put up with all of this just trying to breed your females? From your wether??

😂This video didn’t really convince me to get a goat. Thought I would see some goat fighting here. Why did you choose goats over sheep? I herd sheep are easier to raise, not as violent or picky as goats. I like how they listen to you tho and your tone changes when you address them, did you realize this? Most goats will grow to be bigger than me, do you think goats will listen to a trainer smaller in size than them?