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