Does your goat call you??

[Bring]

My Pygmy doe was wild when I bought her a year ago. She was in a guy's backyard with a half dozen other pygmys. She has very little human contact other than being fed and watered. I brought her home solo and she was so very scared. I would go outside with her and walk in the same pattern as she did. Step, step, freeze. Eventually I won her over. Just in time for her to kid a single doeling. They have their usual "aaa aAa" sounds and they have a special call just for me "MAaaaa". Sounds like they call me Ma! The mama started "calling" me just before her baby was born and has taught the baby to do it. I didn't win her over with treats either, they are both very picky eaters.
Has anybody else had their goats "call" them?

 

[lupinfarm]

More like my Pygmy's yell at me LOL

You can hear them 8 freakin' acres away down at the side of the road LOLL

Cissy is very very very bossy and now she's taught the youngen (not her kid) how to yell at me too (although, quietly). Those two are attached at the hip, Mione is convinced Cissy is her momma and I think Cissy might be convinced Mione is really her momma ha ha.

 

[FarmerChick]

Every time my herd sees me they yell to me.

They want food, simple as that.

Me equals food...LOL-LOL--and they let me know it constantly...LOL

 

[freemotion]

My five all call to me, but they are all different and call for different reasons and in different ways.

The buck has a very soft voice (LaMancha) and I think he is asking me to toss another doe in his pen...

The lactating doe (Alpine) also has a soft voice and only talks when she wants to be fed and milked, and just before she kidded she had a lot to say for a couple of days.

The two pygmies don't say much, but if they spot me out walking on the farm next door, outside our fence, they will holler their heads off in alarm that I am leaving the safety of the herd.

And Ginger, my little sweetie-pie, talks NON-STOP when she sees me. Come feed me, come pet me, come join the herd, come play with me, I'm bored, they are picking on me, etc. Blah, blah, blah! And LOUD, too! She is Nubian/Boer/Alpine, and a noisy little thing. I love it!

 

[Rock Farmer]

As soon as I step out on the front porch, they start yelling. Even if they just got their grain ration for the day. Little beggers!

 

[JerseyXGirl]

Ours start about an hour before feed time. MMaaa MMaaa feed us!!

 

[mully]

CALL .... it is more like scream but they are cute so it saves their lives

 

[lilhill]

Only when they hear me coming out of the house.

 

[MrsCountryChick]

I have a menagerie of animals on our lil farm, but out of our Dairy goats my one lil breed is a mini Nubian & he is by Far the Noisiest & seems to scream .."Maaaa" to me when he sees me. He's a lil buck companion for my (LaMancha) buck... who has a very low "mmmm" when he wants something. But his cuteness is why he's still here (he was bought as a bottle baby who was cute as a button). His name is Nestor for his long ears.

What about Pygoras, are they loud with a Pygmy voice? Or Angoras? Just wondering I love the fibre animals & ~possibly~ we may have one or 2 of them someday.

 

[goatcrazygirl]

For Sure! My baby (half Nigerian Dwarf doeling) screams whenever she sees me, and she runs the perimeter of her fence. She doesn't want food either, she just wants my attention. My two year old Pygmy doe only screams if she sees me feeding the horses or chickens. Who can blame her? After all, it is an injustice to the mighty queen! LOL