[Penninehillbilly]

Hi,
I have a male goat, currently running with females, but I could do with him out of the way for a while.
Has anyone ever turned their billy/buck out with a couple of tups for the summer?  problems?
when he comes back in, he will go into an indoor pen, do his job then he will be away, so apart from whether anything he picks up will affect him, he wouldn't be running in the goat field again.
Thoughts please?

[landroverroy]

My thoughts are- if you give them a big enough space (at least half an acre), then they've room to sort themselves out and are unlikely to come to any harm. Presuming the other alternative is to shut him inside in the summer on his own, then I'm sure he'd be happier outside with the tups.

[Penninehillbilly]

There is about 4 acres,

[Shropshirelass]

Out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how you got on with this if you did it? As I'm considering getting a couple of goats to keep my Tup company in the summer & to also use for a bit of maintenance work in the overgrown parts of the farm that the sheep just don't do. I know their different species & they do work differently & we have had goats in the past.

[Penninehillbilly]

Out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how you got on with this if you did it? As I'm considering getting a couple of goats to keep my Tup company in the summer & to also use for a bit of maintenance work in the overgrown parts of the farm that the sheep just don't do. I know their different species & they do work differently & we have had goats in the past.

I didnt, plan was to sell a  few of the sheep, leaving 1 tup and a wether, in one field, which I've haven't got on with, so the billyboy is still inside. Not good at dealing with the sheep on my own