Goat throwing "fits" on the milking stand...

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

My girl was doing some of the things you said but no where near that bad.

I did a few more rump slaps when she started misbehaving and now after she lifts her foot to kick my hand off she "freezes" and I am able to finish.

Not sure since I am new but I am thinking it was a dominance thing.

 

[treeclimber233]

I have been giving her lessons in the barn and field as to who is the boss. She is dangerous when food is involved. She thinks nothing of shoving her way into the food and if that includes knocking me over that is fine with her. I fed her all the grain she wanted the other night on the milking stand. I got her off the stand and put her in the field. Then I went in the field with a bucket of grain for the other goats thinking she would be ok since she just got off the stand. WRONG!!!! She came running and tackled the food bucket almost knocking me over. Then when I put grain out for the others she tried to guard as much grain as she could butting anyone that even looked at the food. She got lessons on standing back and letting them eat. I put my foot up/andor down that that behavior would not be tolerated. She is very difficult to lead. We just go for a drag--her dragging me. I've been working on that too but not getting very far. I think I am beginning to understand why the people I got her from sold her at such a reasonable price!!!!!!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Oooh... sorry to hear she is such a handful. I guess I got really lucky that none of my goats were like that! I should have watched them being milked before I bought them but I didn't (shoulda done a lot of things) but thank the lord all mine turned out to be nice!


You know one thing I have noticed is that milking does that were bottle babies are MUCH and I do mean MUCH easier to work with. I have one that isn't and all the rest are. They are just soooo much sweeter and easier to work with.

 

[treeclimber233]

Next time I will tell them I want to see the doe milked before I buy.

 

[Georgiamainers]

My Sanaan is going through the same thing right now. It's sooo aggravating! She's being very picky about her feed. To buy me some time to milk her, I throw some Calf Manna in her feed bucket and she picks through it.