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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> If the rest of your goats are 'wild', separate the girls if you can to
> get them away from the meat goats and out of the herd mentality.  It
> will be easier on them if you do this now rather than later.  You may
> have to tackle one to catch her, but catch the goat and put a collar on
> her if she doesn't have one so you can easily lead her around.  Treat
> her just as if she were a dog and take her for a walk.  She'll protest,
> but soon learn that going with you is good because you take her to new
> browse and she will associate going with you to pleasurable food.

These two are the largest sisters from a triplet birth. My Boer goats
are suprisingly friendly. Not pets, the buck likes me to brush him
when I do the LDG. The girls don't let me handle them much, but eat
from a bucket.

Do I have to remove them from the herd to do as you suggested? There
is definately a herd mentality there.

Rob - Va