How many people have disbudded and horned goats together?

I think it just depends on the goats.

I have one horned doe that hates one of my disbudded does, and will slam her given the opportunity, but then our disbudded Boer will slam my yearling horned Kiko-Boer doe.

I only have problems when they're confined.
Loose everybody gets along fine.

I have both mixed together and haven't had a problem. My only horned goat is my older doe and she is pretty gentle. I don't care to have a buck with horns as the last couple I have had WERE problems and a little scary when they decided to challenge me. I feel better about potentially aggressive animals having less weaponry on hand.

I do keep only a few goats though, not a huge herd and they have a huge amount of acreage to get away from each other which I think seems to help them get along better.

We have one ma goat with horns, we bought her that way. We will never buy another or fail to disbud any goat on this property.
We have seen holes in udders and holes in hides. She uses her horns constantly on any other goat she is near.
Once she kids we will be shipping her down the road.

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Deja Moo; The feeling I've heard this bull before.

I had mixed when I first started out, but would not do it again. They were fine together out in the field where there was plenty of elbow room, but in the barn, the horned ones had to be separated from the polled/disbudded. It doesn't take long for a doe with horns to realize she can use them.

Disbudding is not as hard as it looks. Have someone help you the first time or two.

One thing to remember is that if you have to sell the little one later down the road, it may be more difficult to find her a good home if she still has horns. A lot of people don't want horns on their goats.

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