Thread: Goat behaviour?

Maybe goats are like monkeys, or some other social mammals in that the young males get kicked out of the natal group when they reach maturity. So you might be seeing a generation of young adults awkwardly trying to figure out what to do with themselves. Honestly don’t know much about goats so I’m trying to find info about their social behavior right now. Goats are cool.

Edit: found some relevant info https://bree6293.wixsite.com/briawel...goat-behaviour

Goats are a flocking species but they don't flock as tightly as sheep.
Feral goats are hard to muster as individuals (especially males) keep breaking back and prefer to escape rather than herd with the mob.
Sheep stick with the mob for safety unlike goats that seem to more keen to take a chance on their own.Males join harems of females in autumn and feral bucks will travel up to 20km to find does. But the rest of the year they are in bachelor groups or live as solitary males. They sort out a social order in these groups by bunting and horn wrestling.
So most of the year, an alpha female leads a small family group of females suckling their current kids, with any previous adolescent females still in the group. A dam may suckle a kid till the next one is born.

So I think it is normal to see lone males unless a dominant male managed to get a harem for breeding. Any goat experts able to confirm?

Edit 2: this paper says that “During the rut old males drive younger males from the maternal herds.” so maybe it is rutting time and the young solo males were evicted from their natal groups by the aggressive dominant males. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32947.07202