About 16 months ago, I rehomed two pygmy wethers, brothers who were then about a year old. No problems with them at all, they are real sweethearts.
In the past couple of weeks, I've had to put my 'matriarch' goat in the secure paddock, because the railway wall has come down and they've been slow to mend it. With Ellie penned the others tend to hang around her and not wander onto the tracks!
Anyway, now one of the two wethers is acting rather billyish! I can't decide if it's because he's challenging for herd leader, as Ellie has been out of the running for a couple of weeks, or if he's a rigg. He's definitely not got any descended balls, but I suppose he could have one retained inside.
He isn't weeing on himself and I don't think he smells stronger than normal - certainly not the whiff of full billies. He seems to be 'bothering' only Ellie, not the other female. Walking around with his hackles up, rubbing his sides on the fence, and somehow looks a bit more billyish than usual.
What do people think? l
If he was a rigg, wouldn't it have shown before? He was no problem last year when the girls were in season.