Are Boer Bucks Racist??

Frosted Mini's · #1 10/25/13, 08:13 PM

A little background first. I have been helping a local boer goat breeder who shows, etc, and has a clean herd to AI her does. She offered me a free breeding to any of her bucks, and since I had been thinking about possibly keeping a few boer x dairy moms to raise meat kids on, I thought that would be a good idea. Yesterday morning, one of my alpine doelings came into heat. I had intended to AI her, but when I finally made it past her hymen, I couldn't get into cervix-so tight. So, in thinking about my bucks I currently own, there was only one that I think would really improve her faults, and he is 62.5% alpine, so the kids would be like 80% alpine. I don't really want them that high, and just figured I'd just see how her udder turns out and then maybe I'd have an easier time breeding her AI after at least one freshening. So, loaded her up this morning and brought to the boer breeder's house.

She has 5 boer bucks to choose from, and not a single one of them showed any interest at all in breeding her! One even had a doe with him and I watched them breed, and he just plain ignored my doe when we put her in with him (took the other doe out). To give the boys credit, when I got there, she was not acting in heat, but she definitely was, because right when I loaded her up she had been flagging and letting does mount her. SO, do boer bucks that are only used to breeding white does just have something against colored does?? Do they just not like dairy? LOL!

I brought her home, grabbed one of my baby bucks and he bred her twice, I put her away, and my doeling who thinks it's her job to breed all doelings mounted her several times. It's so weird!!

**mygoat** · #2 10/25/13, 10:34 PM

That is very weird. My boer buck will give goo goo eyes to everything that moves. I carry a club in there with me.

Frosted Mini's · #3 10/25/13, 11:47 PM

Maybe she is having a false heat, as this is her first one. Considering what the rest of my doelings have done this year, she may be copying them. HOWEVER, when the others had a false heat, even though they stood for buck, they were only in heat for a few hours to about 12, not 36!! My does are driving me absolutely bonkers with this breeding thing this year!

Goatsandsheep · #4 10/25/13, 11:54 PM

Lol how funny. My friends boer buck liked his boer does and would breed them. But he LOVED their mini horse. The racket he made if she was out of his sight could be heard for miles I think. He didn't care when you move the does.

KSALguy · #5 10/26/13, 12:14 PM

well anything is possible, I have had racist roosters before, but never seen a racist goat lol

where I want to · #6 10/26/13, 12:59 PM

I'd say that the bucks are good judges of the does ready for them. Personally, since I have had mostly percentage Boer does, I know they had to come from somewhere.

KSALguy · #7 10/26/13, 05:09 PM

I think if anything it may be conditioning, if they only see one type of doe over and over and over its POSSIBLE that's what they recognize, that's all I could think happened with my rooster, he had never seen a white or a red hen before, when I finally got one of each he beat them up and would not breed them,

BUT its also possible she wasn't truly in heat and the mature bucks knew it, did they sniff her at all?

Frosted Mini's · #8 10/26/13, 07:23 PM

Yes, some of the bucks sniffed her. My little buck did too, but he will breed anything that moves, I think. LOL.

Buckhuntr · #9 10/26/13, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mygoat

That is very weird. My boer buck will give goo goo eyes to everything that moves. I carry a club in there with me.

This brings back unwelcome memories of my Aunt's leg-humping dachsund (when I was a child).

saanengirl · #10 11/04/13, 12:19 PM

It may not be the buck. It may be that your doe is giving the buck a stink-eye because he is a stranger so he is not too eager to mess with her.