Speaking of loud goats...

Dreamgoat Annie · #1 10/13/12, 04:59 PM

Esme and Jimmy, especially Jimmy, scream infinitely louder and much more often than any of my Nubians do and they're 3/4 LaMancha and only 1/4 Nubian. So what's with that!

And Jimmy is an ornery little sput, always bashing the sheep and some of the other goats. He doesn't just butt them once, either; he hits them with a quick series of whacks: bang! bang! bang! bang!

Fortunately they're fantastic with humans and I love them dearly. But based on these two, I would certainly not call LaManchas low-key!

And Jimmy is huge for his age, tall and stout, you would never know he was a preemie. I have a hunch this one is definitely going to be pulling my cart and wagon one day!

Sue

Ford Zoo · #2 10/13/12, 05:50 PM

Fern is full nubian and even today while she was calling the boys she was quiet. But her daughter, 1/2 boer, now that's a noisy gal and she has not even come into heat yet far as I can tell.

Minelson · #3 10/13/12, 05:57 PM

I could not believe the different bellering I was hearing at the goat expo....notice how my video's are annoyingly loud? It was loud there! And I loved it!

Heronsbend · #4 10/28/12, 10:04 PM

We'd gotten a free Nigerian once. The old owner basically said, "If you can catch her, you can have her." Wildest little thing... All you had to do to set her off was look at her. She didn't just run off like your eyes would shoot lasers... She screamed bloody murder as though someone was sawing her legs off. Touch her, she'd scream even louder. We had to give her a shot, or something to that effect, and I'm sure the neighbors must have thought we were torturing that poor thing.

BoerMomma · #5 10/28/12, 10:40 PM

Our nubian was soo quiet! The boer buckling we have has this reallly really annoying "blat" it's loud and he is sooo obnoxious! Until you give him a handful of grain! Our boer doe sounds more like a sheep lol

MaddieLynn · #6 10/29/12, 10:33 AM

Of the two boer wethers I got to show in 4-H, the one I lost was LOUD. As in, ear splitting loud. Every time he thought he cought a glimpse of me he sounded like 7 cats being murdered.

The one I still have is SO much quieter. He talks plenty but it is very quiet. Every time I go down there I'll say "Hey Ferdinand!" and he'll say "Mehhhh". I think he's the excepion to the breed though; at the shows I've been to with him everyone else's goats scream their heads off the whole time and he just watches.