buck detecting heat? or.....

[desertshi]

When you bring a buck to court your girls will he chase and be very, very persistant even if they aren't in heat? Does the buck know that they are on the brink of heat and try to push them in like a boar pig will?

I brought a buck and he has been after them non-stop. I have never seen him actually "get the job done," so to speak. Supposedly here in my area goats will get pregnant year round. So I brought the buck hoping to get them pregnant right away again. He is definantly in rut, but I don't know if they are in heat?

Owners of year-round breeding goats, how soon after kidding do your does go back into heat?

[LaManchaPaul]

Desertshi, all bucks I've been around are true cabrones. They'll chase and chase and try TO DO anything from bucks to roosters. However, the doe won't want to stand for his advances until she is ready.

Henri a ND kidded on 7/27 and was back in heat on 9/30. Daffi freshened 7/21 and returned in heat on 9/29.

Keep the buck for 20 days and you'll most likely catch her window. If he's in rut she might recycle quickly.

[desertshi]

Hahaha!! Well, that is exactly what is happening. This big boy will NOT leave them alone. It is funny though, he will pick one per day. Like today he has been after Missy ALL DAY! Poor girl, it makes me feel bad...I don't know if I should take him out? He was flapping, snorting, grunting, pawing and talking to her. Chased her under a ramp even where she tried to escape! Yesterday he was after Karma all day and I think he may have gotten her bred, as she had gooey stuff on her rear end this AM during milking.

He is DEFINATLY IN RUT!!

[copperpennykids]

Can you pen him next to the girls? This will give him a chance to get them into heat with his lovely bucky smell, without the chasing.

Our experienced older bucks will "check out" any doe that enters the pen, and try to mount them, but only the young, over-eager boys persistently chase. Both get the job done, but I think the does like those older boys!

[Backfourty,MI.]

I keep my buck seperate from my doe's until I'm ready to breed them which is usually late fall so I get spring babies. Hopefully after it's warmed up some. I never notice my girls going back into heat as long as they are nursing there kids. But usually within 3 wks or so of weaning & sending there kids to there new homes(if sold) they come back into heat. I have Nigerian dwarf goats so they come in heat year around evwen in the winter, etc. here too.