How To Train Your Goat Not To Butt: Proven Techniques For Calm Behaviour | HappyGoatAdventures.org
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- Welcome to the world of goat training, where understanding and patience are key. Dive deep into the techniques and secrets to train your goat not to butt. Whether it's genetics or behavior, every goat has its unique challenges. With the right approach, you can ensure a safe and harmonious relationship with your furry friend.
In this video, I talk about removing and leaving goat horns. Some people choose to have their goats disbudded, but did you know you can train your goat not to butt you? I'll demonstrate how I taught my goat, Rusty, not to butt me.
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Video Title: How To Train Your Goat Not To Butt: Proven Techniques For Calm Behaviour | HappyGoatAdventures.org
This video is about How To Train Your Goat Not To Butt: Proven Techniques For Calm Behaviour. But It also covers the following topics:
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I love the way you interact with your four-legged friends. I love it.
I can see that you aren't the typical goat owner, like the 4-H comments. But, I think it is obvious to everyone how much you love your goats and that they trust you. I think it is awesome and inspiring. Thank you for sharing. Rusty looks like he has a lot of fun playing with you.
I do love my fur babies.
My 2 goats are same
The horns actually help goats regulate their body temperatures for those who dont know! My pygmy billy Beau 8-9 months old is very close to this level of respect and mannerism, which lets me know im doing things right with him❤so thank you for sharing this!❤❤️
I have never seen this so perfectly articulated. Whenever people find out I have packgoats, they immediately have a story of a goat that butts people or climbs on cars or something. I tell them mine are trained not to, and when they ask how...."I don't know, I just do". Your explanation is perfect.
thank you so much
MARRY ME!!!! 😂 I LOVE your outlook regarding horns. I have one who has scurs, and it's so sad! I love horns.
Thank you for this video, we recently rescued a billy goat who had been tied up all day alone and crying. He's only been with us for a few days but already he's enjoying a cuddle/scratch. However he charges at us occasionally. He has huge horns and is very powerful. I don't think I'll be able to flip him but I'll try the water bottle.
Great video, what great goat rusty is.
Thank you for this video!!
Thank you!
Great job!
Thanks for sharing
That’s very good info. I got a 1 yr old Billy that is getting aggressive.
Stacy that was excellent! Great advice and I learned a lot! Thank you!
thank you
Thank you for this video!❤️ And awwww the playing was adorable, those sideways hops😍😍
Thank you for watching. Rusty is sweet, but also very agile and strong.
This is awesome advice , I have a buck that just turned a year and has started to head but . I’m going to try this technique and see what happens . He is pretty smart and listens most of the time lol . Sometimes better than my dogs 😊
I loved this so much! Made my day!
aw, glad to hear that.
I love animal videos like this! Just animals that trust their humans and are clearly understood.
great job
Excellent work. Thanks you for clearing up some misconceptions
My pleasure!
Great info thank you
Your welcome. Be sure to check out some of my other goat videos.
Thank you very much I thought I was going to have too get rid of my goat because he loves to play and try to but me but now I will try and train him thanks again
That video was awesome, so well trained.
thank youy so much
Love it! So impressed by how well Rusty listens when you call him! Hopefully I will get there with my girls 😊
Thank you. They listen pretty well especially when food is involved. It matters how much time you spend working with your animals.
Thank you. They listen pretty well especially when food is involved. It matters how much time you spend working with your animals. Check out my "How to Train your Goats to do Tricks" video.
Rusty really mastered that lengthy side-step! Good boy, Rusty!
Hahaha. Yes he has.
I'm a brand new Boer goat mama with zero experience and these are the best videos to teach me, thank you!
you're welcome, I have plenty of videos out to learn from.
Love this and your channel! I just bought a 2 year old doe and she headbutted me several times, i had no idea of what to do in that situation! Brand new goat owner here
Thank you. Congrats on your new kid. They can be trained like any other animal, it just takes persistence.
Totally agree about dehorning. But next part: how to train a goat to not butt you - proceeds to teasing a goat. 😅
Nice video brother. Great goat.
Thanks 👍
Nice work. I told my wife one day I'd like to have a milk goat. For my birthday she surprised me with a billy goat. Lol.
His teenage "years" I trained him this way and it helped and he also reared up and wouldn't butt me. When he grew up and became a 250lb+ monster, it was a different ordeal. He would mostly rear up and stop his head right at my knee but then..he'd start pushing softly and then harder against my knee and then the fight or flight would have to happen. Protect your crotch at all cost from the horns. Lol. Wild part is he learned I would grab his legs to flip him over and he would pick his legs up quickly and then stick you with the horns or put you in the dirt. His cardio was better than mine and due to worrying the kids would get hurt I had to sell him to a better equipped home.
Stacy, this was great!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your experiences. This also shows that you can keep both kinds of goats together ( horned and un-horned, which many breeders I've talked to told me was impossible!!!) I've been trying to learn as much as possible about goats, and there is so much conflicting information. I got my first two in March, and want to have a good bond with them, like you have with your goats. I am teaching them their names, using treats, which works great except for the fact that they very smart and only seem to know their names when treats are involved. I spend lots of time with them and try to give them lots of love. It would be nice if they'd come to me just for a scratch. Is there a way to transition? I'm sure it all takes time and patience and they are still less than four months old. They are amazing and I want to do right by them. Anyway, THANK YOU for letting us see what is possible and how to have happy goats!!!!!!
Thank you so much for watching. Congratulations on getting your goats!! that's so exciting. I have quite a few videos that may be helpful for you, especially the training video. Yes, it does take time and patience to get a goat to warm up. They all have different personalities and some like to be approached more than the others, but treats definitely help. At 4 months old, it should be pretty easy to teach them.
we have horned goats, we have never been rammed by a single one. We love our babies.
Excellent info! Loving your stuff, greetings from another goatperson from Finland. Also, do u do any castrations?
Welcome and thank you! I have banded a few of my goats when they were 12-16 weeks old (the recommended age to band). When I decided to fix my older goats, I did bring them to the vet to surgically castrate them.
That is amazing, what a good boy!😊 He had some moves😅
he definitely is nimble
Cool Video!
Thanks!
Thank you! My goats all have their horns. It is part of their physiology. If someone is going to get goats, they really need to study the animal. We showed goats at the fair, but I believe in raising my animals naturally. So, when we would show, we showed open class. Horns and all. People were surprised that the females had beards. We did not shave them to show. Just a good bath.
i love peoples reactions when i tell them how males and females both can have beards and horns.
awesome!
Thank you
I have two wethers that are pretty new to me, 1 and 4 years old. The four year old is tame and can be very sweet, but definitely asserting dominance by rearing and swinging his horns at me. He is very tall and too large for me to flip as you demonstrated ... Squirt bottle helps, but he still gets scary! Any suggestions for a huge goat with huge horns?
Ik this video is old but I love your thought process, I'm getting a goat soon and I can't wait!
Question if I castrate a grown buck will it calm him down like a horse or is it too late
I had catsrated 3 of my goats later who were full grown and they did calm down some.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience/expertise. I wanted to ask if your males were fixed or not. I just bought a goat and a billy goat. He seams pretty young. I am in Mexico and he spent his life tied until now. In 2 days he already took very bad habits. Butting of course…and I let him free in my 5 acres as it’s all fenced. I am used to animals as I bread horses and had stallions. I am used to the feet and the kickings, not as much to the horns and butting. And around me everyone is telling me to fix him and to cut his horns. I read that it’s a way for them to refresh (kind of a ventilator around the surface of the horns). So I was wondering if it makes sense for me to try this method as a male or if I will loose as he is not fixed. So for sure, horns, nope, but fixing, if you say it’s possible, I will try as is.
Congratulations on getting a goat!! My males are all fixed now, some of them I banded at 12-16 weeks old and the others I had taken to a vet to castrate because they were 2 years old. Either way, they are still easy to train and work with.
For your goat, I'd recommend getting him some friends. Goats need to be around other goats. It's possible he just wants to play with you and that may just need other goat friends. I definitely do not recommend cutting horns off, but you may want to have him fixed.
@@StacyAlan77 thank youuuu so much for your answer. Actually I also have a goat female(she was bred 2 months ago) so he is not alone. Though I am wondering if he is not feeling stronger and protective *thanks/because* of the female. As I am off the grid in Mexico, vets are not around the corner and they don’t come very easily. I will try my best to follow your guidelines, and if he turns too strong and testing me too much, I will bring him to a vet (they will laugh so badly, but I don’t care 😉. Today I already had him twice on his back. I also have to keep my dogs out of the picture as they want to protect me. I find it easier with horses. But I will learn and find a good solution for him. Thanksssssss again
Great video! You have so much charisma. So Rusty is not casterated? Also, if I train a goat not to butt me will it exhibit the same trained behavior towards visitors?
thank you so much, yes Rusty was castrated at about 3 years old, but he has always had the same temperament since a baby. Each goat is different and has their own quirks, but I'd imagine if you train them not to butt you, it would also go for any human.
Hi Stacy, I have an issue where my goat doesn't headbutt me but will headbutt people who come over to the house. Having company is quite hard these days. One thing you need to know is that my goat is a house goat. He is potty trained and comes in the house to nap and sleep. He was an abandoned feral goat who was blind and his options were few. I live in a beach house in Hawaii so there is no space for a farm. However, he is quite happy with his current living situation. I just need to train him not to harass my guests. Any advice?
I'd guess that most likely its jealousy of your guests. Perhaps hand your guests treats for them to feed the goat right away when they enter so they know they're on the same side?
I agree to leave the goats as they are. Polled genetics are widely available for those who do not want to deal with horns.
true
So I have a 3 year old boer cross we just got he didn't have lot of handling or work done he really needs his feet done be he is severely aggressive when we go anywhere near his legs how to I go about getting this work done with out getting hurt
I have a video up about hoof trimming, you can see what I do to hold them when I trim, but my goats are pretty docile. Some people chose to use a sling which will hoist the goat off the ground to trim their feet.
Stacy i have a question if i have 2 males and one butts the other can i train them not to butt the other? I have one older who bullys the younger goat and wanna try to get the older goat to stop
that is a good question. Though Rusty won't butt me, he will try to butt the goats at feeding time and sometimes for no reason at all. He is definitely the herd boss and I wish I knew a way to stop him from messing with the others. The others have just learned to give Rusty his space.
My goat is huge. I can't take him down. But recently he is chasing and making a certain voice that I'm unsure if hes trying to hurt me or play. Cause he does get aggressive.
Males will vocalize in a way and then blabber their tongue at you when they are in a rut. This just means he likes you. Sometimes this behavior gets a little aggressive, but it's not meant in a harmful way.
Here for advice. We live in an area in Hawaii very RURAL and goats roam freely. An orphan goat adopted my curmudgeon, elderly neighbor. He’s a little too senile to do anything. Mainly he just feeds it so the goat doesn’t belong to anyone. The goat tries to head butt (mainly posturing) my 11year old daughter every morning when she’s at the bus stop. (If my dog doesn’t accompany her up the hill).
How would you suggest she “train this goat?” we have “goat sticks” at the top of the driveway so she can put it in front of herself when he rears up (not to hit but to block). He’s never hurt her or even made contact it’s more annoying than anything.
Two more pieces of information we don’t really have animal control where I live, also I would hate to call . And I leave for work so I can’t wait with her which would clearly be the easiest solution.
Each goat has their own personalities, I wonder if he just wants to play with her or does it seem agressive?
Aggree conceening horns.
As a 4-H leader I do want to add a bit of information from the “other side” for education. Especially as this video is a bit biased and based on bad experiences that should never have happened.
If you want to show in Dairy Goats the goat must be hornless. Either polled or disbudded. There is no getting around this rule. Horns are an automatic disqualification.
Many 4-H clubs require all goats used by children to be hornless. This is for safety and insurance reasons. Even the sweetest goat in the world can move it’s head the wrong way and injure their handlers or herd mates.
It’s important to understand that there are many different opinions on this issue. It’s a very highly debated subject. Where people have a lot of intense emotions on either side of the debate.
At the end of the day it’s personal preference unless you show or do 4-H.
Lastly.. The best way to train your goats not to head butt you... Don’t play head butt games EVER!! I tell my 4-H families all the time not to play that way with their babies. Yes it’s “cute” when they are little, but not so much as an adult. It can be dangerous.
I have been show breeding for 13 years. None of my goats ever try this because I have never allowed anyone to play those games with them. I didn’t have to “train” them not to do it. Just never ever played with them like that.
We never played with our buckling like he is doing here and he started head butting us on his own. He was a bottle baby and always kind of pushy and jealous. It took a lot of work with the squirt gun and putting him on the ground to get him to stop. He will still press his horns against my leg occasionally if im petting another goat or late with breakfast. His disbudding failed and he has horns not scurs. We have a disbudded doeling and 2 grown does that have never tried to ram us even though they do rough play or try to establish dominance with each other. I'm new to goats but I'm sure there must be other goats who naturally tried to push around their people without playing games with them. He hasn't hurt them or us with his horns but was very annoying until we learned about how to train him.
Hello! Awesome video!!! I would like to ask, what is the species/gender of the goat at 7:41 ?
Hi. thank you. That’s Dunkin, he is Nigerian dwarf.
@@StacyAlan77 Ok! Thank you very much for the answer! And what is Rsutys specie?
Polled goats seem to do just as fine as horned ones. But I've seen horned goats get stuck in all sorts of ways and injure other animals. It's the process of disbudding that I don't like, even if it's only for a moment. It seriously looks like torture, jeez. Gonna stick to polled does and borrow a horned boyfriend from them during breeding season lol!!
I agree. My goats were disbudded as babies and I feel bad they don't have their horns to naturally dissipate heat on hot days like they are naturally designed to do😒
4-H leader. They actually don’t make much of a difference. Horned goats are not colder in winter than polled (naturally hornless) nor disbudded. Same in summer the horned goats will have no temperature variation from polled or disbudded either.
My 4-H kids did a project on this year’s ago. All goats registered the same internal and external temps. It was quite interesting project. 😊
I've had goats for over 30 years, no problem with horns.
Thank you for Existing 😇
aw, thank you for watching!!
I really need advice and help.
What could I help with?
My male goat plays with me the same way. We got him as a baby and were told he was a pygmy. He definitely is not, he's huge now, his head comes almost to my chest. He's never tried to headbutt me but he constantly tries to hook my leg when I'm playing with him. I can't seem to get him to stop this behavior and it REALLY hurts when he sneaks behind me and does it and I'm worried he'll hurt me badly one day without meaning to. I've tried pinching his ear and flicking his nose when he does it, but he still seems to think it's hilarious. Any other ideas? (He's been castrated btw)
possibly try the stick taped to his horns so cant hook you?
@@StacyAlan77 honestly I've never thought of that! I'm going to try it!
I also refuse to disbud my goats. I have bought some which were disbudded, but their kids will all have their horns intact.
Thank you I have a young aggressive female who only buts me. We are the only females on our little farm.
Get a hotshot. Instant results. Because anyone with the hotshot in their hands will be avoided. Where as everyone would have to go through this training with the goat. Who has time for that. "no" the hotshot does not harm them, and they will still come to you when you want them to. Don't hate it till you try it. You will see.
I have a yearling I just weathered. He had some health complications and so we had to put off banding a little longer than I wanted, and he is such a little turd now. He’s gonna get turtled..
My goats a asshole and likes to headbutt me and always wanting to start some mess . And when he sees people he gets too excited
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Prob different with a 200lb goat that refuses to be dominated
True, but I'm sure there are other techniques to use for larger goats.
Well....there is this way of interacting with them. And "wow it works, it's magic"... people are just stupid and uninformed, sadly for the benefit of their own interests, disregarding what's good for the animals. They use band-aid methods to solve agression issues in animals, and those dont even solve the agression issue...just make it sure the animal can't hurt it's precious "owner".
And it's all a-okey, in our "CULTURE"... I live in Hungary, and here aswell, if you show this video to any person, 99 out of 100 will just look at you sir like you are a crazy person for "fussing and overthinking things". Cause they see animals as lesser beings not worth the attention.
Ofcourse, they make their own lives miserable aswell :) And in the process, make more work for themselves and less money - ah that sweet money they crave so much :DDDDD
So all in all, great video, but I guess most of white-culture-civil-humans are just not built and raised to understand this. How you have to spend time with other beings to actually understand them. :D
Well done and showcased here. You Sir deserve everything good, and you probably get it aswell - for you have wonderful company and time well spent with these animals. :)
But you never showed us how to train them not to but.