ok here is the first question , i seperated my saanen buck from my boer does , as soon as i noticed , early monday morning ,sunday there was no sign at all "buckiness" and the ladies responding , i assume the ladies were just coming into heat , since thenext day our baby boer buck was the bucky one ,.... what are the chances i got to them intime , and my resulting kids will be boer , and not saanan???

next question , the buck now seems uninterested in the "girls" but my wether is going bucky , trying to mount and all that , i dont see headbutting(i was just around them for over and hour) but he is mounting , should i seperate him as well??

-- Beth Van Stiphout (willosnake@hotmail.com), November 14, 2001

Answers

The wether won't be able to do anything so I don't see the point in seperating him. Does will also mount other does, usually when one of them is coming into heat. As for if you are going to have boers or sanaans, time will tell.

-- Leslie in Western WA (sundaycreek@gnrac.net), November 14, 2001.

IF the wether is really a wether, he can't breed the does. The problem is that "IF". Banding buck kids can sometimes result in 'wethers' who are still bucks, due to a testicle that escaped being banded or somehow slipped back up into the body cavity. This kind of a buck is supposedly not fertile, but I would not want to find out otherwise!! That said, I had a wether that I castrated myself, with a knife, so I knew that I had removed 'everything'. He acted bucky and smelled bucky. We ate him, and he tasted bucky, too. Yech! Sometimes a buck that has been castrated later in life will still act bucky after he's a wether. But my wether had been done very young.

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), November 14, 2001.