Best way to tame goats

Time, only time will get you through this. The babes are only about 8 weeks, have been around few humans, and are still very immature.

Just stay around them, let them get used to you. It will happen when they are ready and a little more mature.

All I can say is be careful with how you play with them! My sisters got to baby goats for x-mas one year and the poor things were very very sick! (When they sneezed they shot poop across the room) We had them in our house next to the fire for months my sister would bring her goat in her bed and snuggle her! Anyways when they were little it was cute to but head with them well they grew up and the one always wants to but you however she is too big now for that! As for the shyness I would have to agree with j_9 it just takes time! Bringing them treats will help and just make sure you spend quality time with them everyday once they bond with you its hard to get them to leave you alone hehe!

Boy have I found that out with Nanny (the mom). She's already seemed to figure out when it's naptime for my 2 year old and makes as much racket as she can so I'll bring food down to make her shut up! My girls are just young and impatient and I want to make this fun for them....as for the goat in a bed, snuggling? Yikes! I'll like my goat but I'll snuggle with my husband!

Yea, and imagine them being sick! My sisters had to bottle feed them and when they would cry in the middle of the night it would sound like they were saying MOM and my Mom would be half way down the stairs before she relized it was the dang goats! It was the best thing for my sisters they were both teens at the time and taking care of those goats tought them a lot! Yea I don't recommend the snugling in the bed either! HEHE

Mrsjo, thanks for the chuckle! Have a good day!

I am working on changing some unfortunate behaviors in our young doe. She wants to butt us...specially any wonen or others she doesn't know. She also had a botched dehorning job. So her horns are partially grown. So she feels like Queen of the Pen. My mother-in-law's former caregiver played "butt my hand" with her when she was very young and I was at work...(mo-in-law lives with us...It's ok...she's an angel...I'm lucky). Anyway, now our little angel who we kept in our house when young wants to butt most of us. I took some advice from a very experience goat person. She said to smack our goat on the nose and say, "Wrong". Now she just hates my hand and runs from me. I love this goat. I watched her come into the world. She would lay on my chest and take naps. We bottle fed her. This is so heart breaking for me. I have stopped smacking her on the nose. Another site said to spray water at her from a spray bottle when she wants to start to charge us or rares up. What do you think? Someone else had the idea to put her in our milking stand and pet her and say sweet things to her and give her Cheerios or oats everyday while on the stand. How does this sound? Help!

It takes time. If you had started at about 3 days of age handling the kids, you would not be able to keep them away from your girls. Now it will just take patience and time.

Well I think that you should read books in there and talk to them. Pet the mom and maybe but a leash on the mom and walk here around the stall or paddock and the kids will follow and they will know you

Regan, please notice the date on this thread, it was started in 2007 and hasn't been active in over a year. Please do not post on old threads, it bumps them to the top of the list.

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