lets start off by saying i have SUCKER written on my forehead
i have just taken in a rescue billy, he has been 'running wild' and is terrified of us. he got delivered at gone 8 last night, so arrived in the dark.
the people that delivered him dragged him out of the van on a rope halter, it took 4 of them and he was so scared. they wouldn't let me try.
we penned him up next to the girls on a nice soft bed, gave him some hay and water and left him alone till this morning.
this morning he was in with my sheep, no broken fences, no open gates. he really really likes the sheep, and is doing the whole mating ritual thing with them. though i wanted to leave it a few days, i have put him in with the girls as he was getting distressed being on his own. all he does is stand next to the fence looking at the sheep.
enid is literally offering herself on a plate to him and he is not interested
he is too big to go in with the sheep, if he tries mounting one he;ll break their back
he is at least 4 and never lived with another goat
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now i'm not that worried if he never does the job with the girls so to speak, he can be castrated (that will happen at some point anyway) and have a safe forever home. but i need him to be happy with his own species, the sheep arent always in goat proof grazing so he cant live with them.
any ideas?
will he work it all out when he settles down and realises i'm not a monster?
thanks in advance
donna