What age to remove the boys?

[cmharris6002]

I have my 5 week old bottle babies, bucklings and doelings, running with the other does. I do not plan to weather my bucklings as they will be butchered over the next few weeks. The boys are really starting to go after the girls. When should have them out in order to be sure threr wont be any pregnant babies?

[Blue Oak Ranch]

ASAP.

They'll harass the doelings, won't let them rest or eat, and even if they aren't fertile they can irritate the doelings' private parts (trust me, their little pinkies are poking out by 5 weeks). My bucklings are expert at self-servicing by 6 weeks.

They can be fertile (both doelings and bucklings) by 8 weeks, give or take a week.

Cheers!

Katherine

[Freeholder]

Ditto! Someone on this forum, sometime back, said she'd had a doe bred when she was only one month old. You don't want to risk that.

Kathleen