Need help from mini breeders

[GoldenWood Farm]

This is NERVE RACKING! Saharah (nubian) is in full blown standing heat and Jack Jack (my nigerian) is trying to get her (key word is trying). I have tried going out and "assisting" but Saharah won't have any of that yet when he tries to reach her she keeps moving her butt around on him :roll: .

Jack is a SHORT nigerian like oober short so I worry about him reaching...he can almooost reach but not all the way and I haven't seen him act like he got her. I am nervous because last year I tried using a taller buck to breed these girls and even he couldn't get them (but then again he never acted interested). Any tips on how to get the job done? I am trying to have her in a lower spot and him higher, holding her and seeing if he can reach but no go's. Partly because Saharah doesn't like being held in place. Jack Jack could care less if I was there :roll: . Will he make it on his own or what? I have never bred nigerian bucks to standard does with success before so this is really nerve racking!

Help!

Justine

[pookshollow]

He'll need a little assistance - enthusiasm will only take you so far!

He'll need something solid to stand on, and if you can place it against a wall, so much the better. Then you can hold the doe in place against the wall, and she can't go too far. I've used this method with my Nigerian buck and also with a young buckling who was just a tad too short to deal with the mature girls on his own.

[Alice In TX/MO]

He needs a box to stand on. A step. A cinder block. SOMETHING!

[havenberryfarm]

Our little buck has successfully used a picnic table. Of course it helps to have a female who is in standing heat and helpful.

[GSFarm]

Trust me! If there's a will there's a way!! My nigerians bred my two Ober does! Five months later I got two beautiful mini-ober does!

[mygoat]

Take a bunch of cinder blocks and line them up against a level wall. Make a walkway for him. If the doe is in standing heat, have someone stand on the 'wall' side of her (or put a hay bale there) and someone else stand on the other side of her to keep her from moving too much... lead the buck down the walkway to the doe and voila! If that isn't tall enough, try hay bales maybe?