Does 2 bucks = disaster?

[Key]

My Boer x buck doesn't usually breed out of season, and I have a few does that I would like to breed even though he has hung up his hat for the winter. If I add another buck in the pen in hopes to create some competition and encourage interest in the ladies, will they hurt each other? They are both approximately the same size. I could care less who breeds the ladies, I just want them bred by one of them. I have two seprate pens, but they are miles apart, so I cannot keep animals in close proximity without housing them together (we rent a farm and cannot make fencing changes to it).
Just wondering if anybody else ran two bucks in with does together & how it went for them.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I put a new buck in with my two in a pen next to the does, and they thrashed him. Had to take him out.

[KSALguy]

first of all a good buck will breed regardless of if he is rut or not, if the doe is in heat he will breed her, rut only means they have an excess of testosterone, if you have does comeing into heat and the buck ignores them then i would get a new buck anyway, but chances are its not the buck its the fact that the does are not comming back into season,

if you add a seccond buck they will set up a social order and knock eachother around a bit but then it will settle out and all will be well, a friend of mine used to run four bucks with her herd all year long,

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[Backfourty,MI.]

I don't run my bucks with my does', when a doe comes in heat I have a pen I put the doe & then the buck I want to breed her in that pen & let them do their buisness. I do that for 2 or 3 days what ever it takes.

I do have 3 bucks that all stay together & get along really well but they have been together since they were about 9 or 10 weeks old. They do beat on each other when a doe comes in heat though. I think they are excited & one's is trying to show dominence over the other's.

[motdaugrnds]

I always keep 2 bucks. I keep them together and separate from the does only for a few short months of each year. (They get the back pasture with housing & pen; while does get the front pasture with housing and pen.)

At breeding time, I separate the bucks by placing each with the does I want that buck to breed .. (one buck with his does in back area; the other buck with his does in front area). Once I'm sure breeding has occurred and winter is coming on, I bring all to the front acreage and in to our large barn.

The barn is subdivided in such a way that I can let the does out all the time to graze at will while only letting the bucks out on alternative days. I do this mostly because my herd buck is nearing 12 yrs old and is my favorite. I don't want him beat up on! Still, my gates suffer! I have another heavy-duty iron gate I will be repairing today because Roman, my oldest, decided he wanted to tear it up just to aggravate his son, Alginon, who did not get out that day to run with the does! (Roman is and has always been so very sweet; so has Alginon. Neither have ever tried to hurt me or David; but then we don't try to get between them in a dualing match either.) This is the 2nd iron gate Roman has made a mess of! grrrrrrr

By having the entire herd up in the large barn, tending them all (even kidding times) are made much easier on me.