Things You'll Need
- Corn chips or raisins
Instructions
Try to acquire or interact with your goat as soon after its birth as possible. Bottle feed your goat while it is still a kid. Handle the kid on a daily basis, so that it becomes used to being touched and around humans.
Let your wild goat become comfortable with its new surroundings, if you acquire it when it is an older adolescent or an adult. Give it time to adjust to its new home. After it is comfortable, calmly and quietly enter its pen or living area. Make sure not to make your presence threatening. Your goat will eventually become curious enough to approach you, marking the first milestone in taming an older goat.
Reward your goat every time it approaches you, by offering it a corn chip or a few raisins from your hand. The goat will eventually associate being friendly toward you with receiving treats, making it more likely to come up to you of its own accord. Try gently touching and petting the goat as it takes food from your hand, to help make it comfortable with being handled.
Never chase your goat while you are trying to tame it. Goats are natural-born prey animals, and will become frightened of you if you run after it like a predator. This can reverse your taming efforts and jeopardize your relationship with your goat.