Whether to wether?

[The Tin Mom]

How do you decide?

Sorry for this newbie question but, here goes....

I have a beautiful Lamancha buckling, Storm, from my FF, Snow.

Here is the issue - I have already got a wether to keep my buck company - I don't need two but it seems a shame to wether a buckling from excellent stock. A friend told me that she practically gives bucklings away or wethers them (and she has very good stock & shows extremely well).

She is coming through town tomorrow and has offered to show me how to wether my month old buckling.... Should I wait & see if I can sell him or should I go ahead & plan to wether him now?

Snow freshened with a doeling & this buckling & is currently milking just over 4# in the morning (I leave the kids on during the day). She has a nice udder. Snow's dam is SGCH and was Grand Champion at a 2005 state fair.

My buck, Char, is also from excellent lines and is about a year old. He still has the sweetest nature & (other than jumping the fence to get to the girls twice - LOL) was very easy to handle during mating season last fall - (and this is my first year). His dam placed 15th at the ADGA Nationals as a two year old.

Thanks! I appreciate your thoughts & comments on this.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Offer him on Craig's List as an intact buckling and see what happens.

[deineria]

I'd first see if anyone is interested in him as a buckling.

[shiandpete.1]

Wewether bucks from first freshners just because we really don't know how well their dam will end up milking, and how her udder will mature. You could offer him for sale and see what happens. It is hard to sell bucks and wethers.

[Backfourty,MI.]

For me it always seems easier to sell them as bucklings rather than wethered. But last year I had a few wanting a buck & someone wanting a wether also.
I would try to sell him as a buck first. You could sill wether him if not too much longer I would think.

[The Tin Mom]

Thank-you. That is what I will do. He is very sweet & with such excellent bloodlines that it seems a waste to wether him this young & then find out I made an expensive mistake.

My friend raises a different breed, also - so that may make a difference on her attitude toward bucklings.

She said she would show me how to vaccinate today instead of how to wether - that is a good lesson for me to learn, anyway!!

thanks so much for all of your input!!