Frustratedearthmother's 2025 Kidding Thread

[rachels.haven]

I have never owned a polled goat in all my years of owning goats. Would be nice because there's nothing that I hate worse than disbudding. Hate it, hate it, hate it!

x2, Do you mind the weird shaped heads it gives them? Although personally I might be willing to tolerate that if we could just have whole polled breeds of goat. Burning is the worst.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

x2, Do you mind the weird shaped heads it gives them? Although personally I might be willing to tolerate that if we could just have whole polled breeds of goat. Burning is the worst.

I'm so accustomed to flat heads that it seems normal to me, lol. I have 4 horned goats now and it has totally changed the dynamic of my herd. The flat headed girls aren't too fond of the pokey-headed girls. Sometimes I'm tempted to forgo disbudding but then I'm reminded of how destructive horns are to the infrastructure around here. However, the last few years I've stopped disbudding the bucklings that I know will have a short life. The buyers of those guys like horns and danglies.