for you goat eaters............long read
used to have 10acres on end of dead end road, it backed up to about 500 acres of lumber company land. I started raising beagles to rabbit hunt with. the old fellow I bought the land from was about 75 at the time and knew a little bit about everything as most old farmers did. I had a good female beagle only thing was she was slow, but didn't run deer, and wouldn't give up on rabbit but was just slow allways 3-400 yards behind the rabbit. I used to wheel and deal in beagles looking for a good male to breed her with, most I got turned out to run deer.
I was talking with the old neighbor one day and told him about the latest "deer" dog I had just gotten and he smiled and said his dad used to keep an old billy goat, they raised coon hounds, and anytime one of the pups got to running deer he would tie it to the billy goat, the old goat would just waller the dog all over the place, he said his dad would pull em apart and usually one or at most two times and the dogs wouldn't bother a deer again, guess the goat and deer are in the same family and smell enough alike the dogs would be afraid of the goat and that smell when out in woods when they came across deer tracks would bring back the fear of the goat.
I got me a small pygmy goat and raised him in kennel beside the beagles, we called him gomer the guard goat, a few minutes in the pen with gomer and the pups would leave him alone, never had but one dog run deer after using this method, and that dog I think was to old to break. I don't think old Gomer ever knew he was a goat, he would follow me and kids around like a dog, and when we let him out in the yard only think he would eat was flowers, wife hated him, out in yard he would eat every dandilion in sight, yellow or white, then just blahhhh, blahhhh till we put him back in the pen, he ate horse and mule food, and dog food and just about anything he could pull off the dog box.
gave him to a friend when we moved back to town, his wife wanted a pet, she used to let him in the house and he would follow you about anywhere just like a dog, though he never liked dogs, though I think that was my fault because of the way he was raised, but he did take up with their cat and chickens. last time I saw him he looked like a potbellied pig he was only knee high but he was almost bigger around than he was tall. he followed me and my son out through a field and would have to stop about every hundred yards and catch his breath, he just panted real heavy, as he was out of shape. my buddy said they couldn't keep him out of the chicken food/cat food/dog food he would get in their shed if left open and eat everything he cold get to. my friend told me he just fell over one day, must have died of heart attack from being overweight.
sorry for long read but you fellows talking about eating goats got me thinking, no way I could eat one all I would think about was poor old Gomer.......
I was talking with the old neighbor one day and told him about the latest "deer" dog I had just gotten and he smiled and said his dad used to keep an old billy goat, they raised coon hounds, and anytime one of the pups got to running deer he would tie it to the billy goat, the old goat would just waller the dog all over the place, he said his dad would pull em apart and usually one or at most two times and the dogs wouldn't bother a deer again, guess the goat and deer are in the same family and smell enough alike the dogs would be afraid of the goat and that smell when out in woods when they came across deer tracks would bring back the fear of the goat.
I got me a small pygmy goat and raised him in kennel beside the beagles, we called him gomer the guard goat, a few minutes in the pen with gomer and the pups would leave him alone, never had but one dog run deer after using this method, and that dog I think was to old to break. I don't think old Gomer ever knew he was a goat, he would follow me and kids around like a dog, and when we let him out in the yard only think he would eat was flowers, wife hated him, out in yard he would eat every dandilion in sight, yellow or white, then just blahhhh, blahhhh till we put him back in the pen, he ate horse and mule food, and dog food and just about anything he could pull off the dog box.
gave him to a friend when we moved back to town, his wife wanted a pet, she used to let him in the house and he would follow you about anywhere just like a dog, though he never liked dogs, though I think that was my fault because of the way he was raised, but he did take up with their cat and chickens. last time I saw him he looked like a potbellied pig he was only knee high but he was almost bigger around than he was tall. he followed me and my son out through a field and would have to stop about every hundred yards and catch his breath, he just panted real heavy, as he was out of shape. my buddy said they couldn't keep him out of the chicken food/cat food/dog food he would get in their shed if left open and eat everything he cold get to. my friend told me he just fell over one day, must have died of heart attack from being overweight.
sorry for long read but you fellows talking about eating goats got me thinking, no way I could eat one all I would think about was poor old Gomer.......
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I've heard of and seen that method of breaking a deer running hound. The one time I seen it the hound about killed the goat and had to be pulled off. I've broke many dogs from running deer. Catch their azz and wear it out is the best method, it works. Shocking collars take a lot of efforts out of breaking a beagles and coon hounds, not as effective but it sure is easier than running them down. 0 -
Completely different families, (cervidae and bovidae) not sure why it would work, maybe after a goat wrestle no dog wants chase anything for fear he will catch it. 
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