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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: sokel on September 17, 2012, 10:31:04 pm

Title: What age
Post by: sokel on September 17, 2012, 10:31:04 pm: What age do Boer Billy Kids usualy show an interest in the girls. William is now 7 months old and so far has not shown any interest in the Girls.
Blossom is in the next pen to him and she has come into season today but he is not at all interested in her :o
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on September 17, 2012, 10:36:39 pm: I would have thought by now he should be interested definitely... I would put them into a pen together and observe. I have used a male kid on a (larger) goatling last year and he was VERY keen. Needed a careful arrangement using the step into the goatshed to give the boy a bit of height though...
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on September 19, 2012, 10:43:35 am: Well as its a nice day I let them out in the Padock as there is plenty of places that he can be higher than her and dispite her throwing herself at him like a right tart he totaly blanked her and went of to browse :-\
Maybe he does not like Toggs ::)
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 19, 2012, 02:29:27 pm: Maybe his interests lie in a different direction. Have you tried him in with another male? :roflanim:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on September 19, 2012, 08:10:21 pm: Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on September 19, 2012, 02:29:27 pm
Maybe his interests lie in a different direction. Have you tried him in with another male? :roflanim:
Dont even go there :D
Not tried him with another Male as he is the only one we have and he is only here as someone couldnt keep him so we took him on after years of saying no billy
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on September 19, 2012, 09:13:49 pm: Is he smelly, pee-ing himself and generally behaving like any male goat would at this time of year? If not, maybe the absence of a male "role model" is the reason? Have you felt if his balls are right and proper? What do you know about his parentage? Is he horned/disbudded or polled?
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on September 19, 2012, 10:14:17 pm: He is just starting to smell a bit over the last couple of weeks, its usualy when you open the shed up on a morning that its noticable.
He definatly has 2 VERY BIG balls ::) He has been disbudded
All I know about his parents is that they are both BBGS registered 100% Boer and CAE negative
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on September 19, 2012, 10:33:02 pm: Well he may just be a late starter... ???
The reason I was asking after his parentage/horns is that in the case of polled to polled mating you could have a sterile billy.
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on September 20, 2012, 10:16:10 pm: Fingers crossed that's what it is
He is starting to interact with the others now where before everyone bullied him and he spent his time avoiding them
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on September 23, 2012, 12:22:10 pm: Well William is trying even if he is trying on a goat not in season and he has the wrong end ::) at least its better than him ignoring them :fc:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on September 23, 2012, 09:11:53 pm: Well if it is any consolation - my castrated BT wether kid is trying to mount any female in sight at the moment. I have checked - no balls definitely... (it was done by the vet!), but I almost feel sorry for him... Looks like goat curry is on the menu earlier than planned...
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 23, 2012, 09:59:58 pm: My castrated Sanaan x has evil designs towards his mother. She's not at all impressed.
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on September 23, 2012, 10:43:17 pm: Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on September 23, 2012, 09:59:58 pm
My castrated Sanaan x has evil designs towards his mother. She's not at all impressed.
The ladies can definitely tell if it is the real thing or just a wether messing about... my girls are just getting fed up with the BT boy... but he is not deterred, so had to bring him inside today when everybody else is outside in the (rare) beautiful sunshine.
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Penninehillbilly on September 24, 2012, 05:52:03 pm: My boy is running with 2 castrated males - getting plenty of practise! :o
Let's just hope he hasn't decided they are preferable to the females.
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 24, 2012, 09:09:58 pm: Quote from: penninehillbilly on September 24, 2012, 05:52:03 pm
My boy is running with 2 castrated males - getting plenty of practise! :o
Let's just hope he hasn't decided they are preferable to the females.

Risky. :roflanim:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on October 05, 2012, 06:23:59 pm: Well William has decided he is a LADY'S man after all
:excited: :excited:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: jaykay on October 05, 2012, 06:41:23 pm: Good stuff :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Anke on October 05, 2012, 06:52:44 pm: Good! ;D I am sure you are :relief: ...
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Brucklay on October 05, 2012, 10:26:27 pm: William it obviously just a chilled out chap - taking his considerate time and getting the job done correctly :thumbsup: :excited: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 06, 2012, 04:17:41 pm: :relief: :relief: :relief:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: NormandyMary on October 07, 2012, 12:36:51 pm: Perhaps William's father gave him the talk about respecting the opposite sex and not just a wham bam thankyou mam sort of goat. I just hope he remembered the flowers and chocolates (or did he eat them!) :roflanim:
Title: Re: What age
Post by: sokel on October 07, 2012, 12:58:22 pm: Well William seems to have eyes only for Blossom :-\ even though she is no longer in season the second he gets let out of his pen he runs to hers ::)
Apple is in season and he wont even sniff her !
Title: Re: What age
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 07, 2012, 10:11:27 pm: Obvously he's a one goat billy.