Necessary Training: Questions

Questions

What is a freezer camp?

• The kind way to put down a goat and butcher

Would you use a squirt bottle with commands?

• No, only with the command back
• For example: leave the area, get out of camp, and get back while feeding hay
• Stay monotoned, have no emotion when training, and stay neutral
• Goats train with pain and pleasure
• Bonded bottle-fed goats are very forgiving

Struggling goat on a trail, do you lead with a rope

• Straggling goat, hook to another goat never lead them
• If there is rain, tired, and just want to get back to the truck hook up to another goat
• Climbing up a mountain and a goat passes, grab its tail and it won’t want to get ahead of you again
• If needed assistance to climb, grab on the britchin or tail of a goat