Daggum goat!

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flacowman

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Got home yesterday and all of the cattle were in the pens pushing like they were being worked.  Baffled, I walked around and found one of the neighbor's nanny goats wandering around trying to follow them.  Our cattle have never laid eyes on a goat before but the nanny had come from a pasture with cows so was nonplussed.  Had to drag her by the horns to the road where the neighbor met me.

Anyone else had any odd experiences like this?  I was mildly amazed at how terrified of the goat my cattle were.
 

JWW

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had one of the most dog broke steers at county fair some years ago just absolutely become infatuated with sheep, everytime he saw one or heard one he got a little awkward and had to find out what the heck it was.. ;)


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steerjunkie

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We keep a pygmy goat with our steers all the time. we feel it helps any kicking problems.
She wanders through their legs and they dont seem to mind.
she really feels like one of the calves.
When we introduce new calves she immediately walks up to them and head butts them to show them whos boss. funniest thing you'll ever see.
even saw her do this to a 2000# bull
 

Top Knot

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The goat was lucky. The first year I had pigs on my place, a few got out and under the electric wire and in with the cows. The cattle went ballistic. They were bellering, butting, and even stomping on those pigs. I mean cows jumping in the air and coming down on those feeder pigs. It was all I could do to get the cattle driven away from the hogs, and then the pigs were about impossible herd because they were so stressed out. Amazingly I didn't lose one. We now have pigs in an adjoining pen to where the cattle drink and if one happens to get in with the cows they hardly look at it. They've been desensitized.

Also had the same thing happen with a snapping turtle out in the pasture one summer.
 

chiangus

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Goats can be ornery and mean suckers.  When I was younger I can remember wresting around with the horns with one and as I walked away the sucker charged me and dropped me flat on my but.
 

flacowman

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our cowdogs sleep with the calves most nights, and the oldest usually barks at the window when a cow is calving, great alarm system.  Pretty much the dogs and cattle know how to separate work and play at this point.  And I really like the pygmy goat idea, I might have to try that if we have any kicky calves in the future
 

shortii

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My parents bought a goat from some kid at the fair one year because the kid wasn't getting any bids at the sale. When we brought him home he thought he could fight one of my heifers. His hair stood straight up on its back and and he would charge toward the heifer. Every time the heifer would push him across the lot all while he kept his feet planted. By the time he quit we were all laughing so hard we all had tears in our eyes.
 
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