[cva66snipe]

The Nanny's were more violent than my Billy when it came too the herd. I'd hear a loud thud in their shed where a goat had been slung against the wall and sure enough one would be dead usually a yearling.

The Billy I handled by about once a month grabbing his horns and pulling his head to the ground till he bleated. It somewhat calmed his attitude. But whenever he would follow and get too close I kept a stick or hammer handle with me to rattle his horns a wee bit. LOL He didn't like that at all.

I did have one way of getting the herds entire undivided attention and that was rattling a pack of crackers. Very handy for calling them in or moving them from lot too lot.

[goat granny]

Mine could be way out at the back of the pasture and I'd just bang on the metal bucket and they would come running, its graining time once a day...sometimes it would get jammed up at the door with about 20 goats trying to get in at once...the other barn wasn't as bad, we grained on both sides of that area. Usually that area was the younger one's and a few doe's....

They would go out as a flock in the morning and then come into the barn to chew cud. Then they would go out again in the last afternoon to graze again and return to chew cud...Yuk I was scratching one's neck one day when she brought up her cud. God that stuff stunk as she burped in my face....Yikes. Glad they didn't spit like camel and llama's do..

[Elsie]

I did have one way of getting the herds entire undivided attention and that was rattling a pack of crackers.

Oh YEAH!

They hear that crinkly sound and come running!

Good way to get stepped on with them feet, too; if you are slow at getting the package open!