How to Tame a Wild Goat

Although goats have been domesticated for many centuries, they are still born as wild animals. Although you can let your goats live untamed in the pasture, taming them can make them easier to handle and work with. Tame goats can also make friendly pets. If you want to tame a goat, you will have to be patient and work every day at interacting with it and getting it to approach you. Persistent efforts can result in a sociable goat, but some goats can prove unteachable.

Things You'll Need

  • Corn chips or raisins
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Instructions

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.