an unplanned breeding or not-UPDATE
Sept 25, 2019 14:55:22 GMT -5
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Post by jerseyrose on Sept 25, 2019 14:55:22 GMT -5
I just sold my boys this weekend and they were still in with their mothers and sisters. I have never had a youngster breed , but I do have Boer goats and while they make their " billy noises", chase the girls around, and play mount ( sometimes with it out) it is all in play and learning for them. It has been so hot this year my boys were really inactive in this department. usually they drive everyone nuts....
Dairy bucks on the other hand have been known to be more sexually virile at an earlier age. Has he been actively marking himself? Have the does been showing interest in him? Many times when he gets too full of himself and tries something an adult doe will put him in his place in short order. I would separate him ( with a male friend) and see what happens when you put the new buck in, or you can get something from the vet but that is drastic and you don't want to go that route if you don't know for sure.
Can you haul them in to the vet for an ultrasound? How far along do they have to be for a blood test kim'scows??
I am quoting my own post because I have to say I am suspicious of one of my long yearlings. We did hoof trimming and deworming yesterday because I will be putting the buck in with them in a few days. Just the last few days I am looking at this girl and I am afraid she has already been bred
By whom I wonder? There was a huge single buckling and several of my nicer big boys who could have done it, but the buck also shares a fence line of cattle panels and I have had a breeding that way once in the past. She is a FF and one of my dappled does and it pains me to think of her not being bred by my new buck...
Of course she may not be bred at all, but just eating well....
I said I never had a youngster breed one of my does. I shouldn't have id that. I might have jinxed myself......
Time will tell......