[Jacob-list] FW: Advice Please - Jacobs and Goats

[ARTHUR PARTRIDGE]

>Not sure about pygmies, but our goats always rule over the Jacob sheep. We

have had Nubians and Alpines, and one grafted (to a Jacob ewe whom lost her
lamb) >Boer kid.

>Sue (and Marie)

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We have both goats and Jacob sheep.  I never put the goats with the sheep. 
They are two pygmy goats and a larger pygora goat (pygmy + angora).  The
goats are always head butting each other.  A friend of mine put her
pregnant ewe in with two mother Nubian goats.  The ewe never lambed, my
guess is the goats butted the ewe constantly.  I paid double for the ewe to
get her out of there and back home to the Jacob flock.  It really isn't a
good combination.  Like Sue wrote, "goats rule over the sheep".  That is
very true.

Cathy
Moscow, Idaho