Bratty goat...

[BlueMoonFarms]

A few good pins and she no longer challenges me, or goes after the other goats, so shes behaving!

Im glad your Nutmeg is doing better.

Did you actually pin her for going after the other goats too for just for challenging you? Just curious how/why she stopped going after the other goats.

Normal pecking order behaviour I allowed.
A butt here and there was fine, however Nutmeg would guard the hay and bully everyone out of there food, or keep them away from the shelter when it was raining.
So, when ever she started being "to much" I would yell knock it off, wait and see if she would, and if not go out and pin her and make her knock it off.
Then if she began chasing anyone down, i would go out and stop that as well.
She now knows to listen to the "knock it off Nutmeg!" or else she will get pinned.
So far she has been behaving and been very respectful of the other goats, me, and everyone who enters the pen. She tried to challenge one of my friends, and I shrugged at them and said, "Want to learn how to pin a goat?"
After that she no longer challenges ANYONE; she appears to have learned that anything with two legs WILL and CAN pin her and put back in her place.
Once the other goats realized that she was not head boss they settled into a nice little order, Nutmeg is still on top, but they know shes not THE top hehe

 

[autumnprairie]

I love the story. I have had two to do the I'm stuck. The first one was a buck and we ate him and the second one is Priscilla and most of the time I ignore her and she gets unstuck herself. She knows if it is self inflicted she will get laughed at then left to figure it out. I swear goats want to see how much you will do for them and if you will come running for every scream and cry

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

I love the story. I have had two to do the I'm stuck. The first one was a buck and we ate him and the second one is Priscilla and most of the time I ignore her and she gets unstuck herself. She knows if it is self inflicted she will get laughed at then left to figure it out. I swear goats want to see how much you will do for them and if you will come running for every scream and cry

I wish Nutmeg was that clever. When shes stuck her idea of getting free is forward motion. She had busted the gate, let the other goats free many times, broken the fence, and ripped out a solid ceder post....
Shes been stuck in the fence all night before also, we almost lost her during the winter because she got stuck after out last check, and when came out the next morning she was buried in snow with ice hanging off her.
Shes a...um...yeah...Bratty goat.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Hmm...
Zebra stripes, or hot pink?...How about both!
I think Nutmeg pulls it off quite nicely.

 

[animalmom]

She is stylin' with that hot pink!

 

[Moonshine]

I love it! Just curious though, why don't you cut her horns off?

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

I love it! Just curious though, why don't you cut her horns off?

I thought you couldn't at her age?
And my vet is expensive X_X very expensive...

 

[madcow]

I love it! Just curious though, why don't you cut her horns off?

I thought you couldn't at her age?
And my vet is expensive X_X very expensive...

Right, cutting off horns has to be done by a vet if they are horns this size, and it's very risky due to the blood loss. The horns are a portion of the skull and have a blood supply like fingernails do, but greater. I know you can trim or file them slightly to get rid of sharpness or points, but not much, and a little at a time.

 

[Moonshine]

People do it around here. The guy I got my Pygmy from had cut one of his horns himself. He left about an inch. I don't see why you couldn't just put iodine on them like a sore. If it just bleeds like a fingernail then that's not much. I've heard they are like fingernails. Idk just do your research.

 

[AshleyFishy]

You can band horns at any age and they just fall off.