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If you try to catch a goat by the horn, it can snap off unless you get the horn at the very base. First you grab a goat by the back leg, with your other hand you can grab onto the horn at the base, hold onto that back leg as he will be trying to still kick out of your grasp. You now have control of the head and horns. Use your knee in the middle of the abdomen, lift it about an inch or two off the ground, then you drop them on their side and sit on them...Trim all 4 hoofs, delouse and worm them, mark down his number on your pad after you let him up, he will back off and stay as far away from you and you just stand in the middle of the barn and grab another one, repeat that about 60 times. In 2 weeks, catch them again but only to deworm and delouse. Hoof trimming and the rest is done 3 months later. I use to be strong and in shape, am now 75 and have a hard time lifting a 20 bag of dog food from the cart to the car....LOL I hate that the most from growing old. bummer. For the big billys it took both me and hubby to get them down and do the hoof trimming etc. We had about 10 that took us both to catch an throw...