Buckling Breeding Age.

Bucklings can breed pretty much as soon as they are able. As long as he can reach the doe and acting ready, there's no reason he can't breed at nine months or even earlier. 😉

Oh yeah he's definitely breeding age lol... I have a friend who bought a three week old registered buckling. 5 months later ALL of her females had kids

And btw her other bucks hadn't been with the does, and were in a totally different part of the property

Some bucks are obviously ready to go earlier than others 😅
Your buckling will be more than ready this fall, so breed whenever your doeling is ready 😊

Thanks. Right now he shows very little interest in the does. I haven’t seen him even try to mount one of them. He has mounted my wether. lol

Has your inspiring herd sire begun to scent himself to draw the attention of the does? The more stinky he gets the more appeal the ladies will have for him and in some ways the gosh awful smell helps trigger their cycles to begin.

Yes he has. That’s why i’ve separated him because some of my, not ready to breed, doelings we’re going into heat and he was showing interest. But the buckling he don’t sniff them or anything.

It seems like he hasn’t had a chance to show his interest if he’s been separated. Maybe you saw heat signs before he could smell them?
How many does do you want him to get the job done on? That might be the only issue where he’s young, but I still don’t think you need to worry. Lol

He’s not separated, my current breeding buck is. I plan on him breeding 5 doelings. He has good milk lines and im wanting to get into milking.

We have 3 young bucklings, all currently 5 months old, they'll be about 7-8 months when I use them. My big bucks leave tomorrow so it's just them. They already show signs somewhat towards the girls but they should be good to go by then. I've had a few bucks settle does at 4 months old. I also had one that wasn't ready that first year too. Depends on the animal.

We've used Boer bucks as young as about 5 months old, he did need some help reaching some of the girls (hand bred, had him on a pallet with wood over it to cover the holes lol). If they can reach them, they can get the job done.

They are physically mature fairly young, depending on the breed as early as 3-4 months. Height may be a issue and older ladies tend to not look at very young boys as handsome fellows they want to breed with lol when I first started with goats I bought a 3 month old and put out with the does. At around 4 months he was able to breed the younger and smaller does, the larger and older ladies it was more along the lines of 6 months. A really old and set in her ways doe would t let him until around 9 months old. But if one really needed kids out of a young buck and have a old sour doe I’m sure she can be held so he can breed her.

My 1 month old Nigerian Dwarf boy is bonkers over my doe in heat. I thought 1 month old was too young for that!

If he isn’t extending, it’s not an issue. Even does at that age will mount each other.

Tons of my babies mount for play girls or boys. But I had a 8 week old pee on him self! It was crazy. He is now a happy wether.

My boy Thunderbolt was 6.months old ( boer) and he covered 8 does his first breeding season. He was big for his age. This year I gave Ruger ( boer) 8 does ,and he started at 7 months, but he has slways been big.
Once they get the 1st doe covered, then you have nothing to worry about. I just keep an eye on my older does, so they dont hurt him!

As suggested, if he isn’t extending you should be fine with the 1 month old. But if you are concerned, you can separate the kid until the doe goes out.

Update: He might have some kids on the way! He has been trying to seduce my older ladies but they aren’t having it. Most of them are already bred by my nigerian buck anyways. But he went after a few of my will-be FF and I think at least two of them took. That was at the beginning of the fall and that’s the only time I’ve seen him act bucky. He is still more interested in liking me and just following me around then anything else. My wethers are more buck like then him. Lol. I really don’t mind. I was going to wether him a while ago but decided that he could replace my nigerian in a few years. If he wants to that is. Either way he won’t be going anywhere any time soon.

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