[blackbart.223]

"If neutered as kids, they have about the same temperament as females."

Just so everyone knows, adult males(bucks)tend to be very nasty and aggressive.

[goat granny]

My only experience with goats is with Angora's...they have a specific breeding season and during that time they are aggressive and smell like pi$$. I guess the female finds that smell irresistible...they urinate on the underbelly and you can smell them from 20 foot away...After breeding all the females we would separate the females from the males and neutered males into different barns....They would not be nearly as smelly or aggressive after they knocked up all the nannies....

We had separate pastures for each breeding male....or they would fight to the death or which ever on got a broken leg first...They can break a leg in a split second...had a yearling male break another males leg while my hubby and I were standing only about 10 feet from them in the barn talking...

They just use their horns to jam a leg of another goat into the V part and just twist their head, and the leg is broken....

But I spent a lot of time with the flock, so our animals were quite friendly, EXCEPT during breeding season....then they are dangerous....Our main breeder male had horns with a 42 inch span from one tip to the other...

I don't know if other breeds of goats have a breeding season or if they breed any time of year..That should be considered when getting a couple of animals...

When shearing a angora, the neutered males mohair was deemed soft enough to be classified as adult female...Un-neutered males has the lowest classify of mohair....course, smelly and cheapest of all the shears.....