Goats of different age and gender are called by different name. Usually goats with approximately 12 to 24 months old with two permanent incisor teeth are called yearling goat.
A yearling goat has just passed beyond it’s first kid stage and now a young goat who is going into his second year.
Goats go through various life stages, like all other animals. After birth, both male and female goats are called kids. A female goat under one year of age is called a doeling and a male goat under this age is called a buckling.
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What is a Yearling Goat
Yearlings are the goats who have just passed their first year of kid stage and going into their second year. Both male and female goats within this age are called yearlings.
Yearling goats are almost mature. They are less dependent upon their mom and show more interest in herd mates.
Some people call both male and female goats as kids until they gain sexual maturity (usually for their first year of life). After this age they are generally reclassified and called by different name according to their production purpose.
For example, the yearling goats used for milk and kids production are called doe, castrated bucks for meat production are called wethers and the male goats used for breeding purpose are called bucks.
The yearlings are often calleddoeling goatwho have not produced offspring yet.
Usually male goats gain sexual maturity faster than the female ones. Some male goats are kept sexually inactive for their entire life, those goats are called wethers. A yearling goat before becoming fully mature bucks is called bucklings.
The First Year
By the end of your goat kid’s first year, they will be sexually mature and nearly full grown. Although in this stage they are not fully developed.
They will continue to grow, add weight, develop physically and emotionally for at least next one year or two. During the first year, your goats will replace their middle two baby teeth by larger teeth.
They will continue replacing their rest teeth for four years or until they replace all their baby teeth and gain permanent teeth.
Usually both male and female goats gain sexual maturity within their one year of age. Although female goats of some breeds gain puberty within their 4 months of age.
And the bucks of somegoat breeds在2至3个月大的年龄内获得性成熟。通常，几乎所有品种的雄性和女山羊都会在一个年龄段之内获得性成熟。
Female goats will enter their first estrus and sometimes bred within their first year of age.
Although you should not bred your female goats until they reach at least 60 percent of their adult weight for avoiding all types of health problems.
因此，最好让男性和雌性山羊彼此分开。但是，如果您在最初的几个月将它们保持在一起是可以的。
几个月后，将完整的屈曲与防止不必要的怀孕的群体分开。您可以在达到完美的体重后将其与牛群保持垂涎。
From Yearling to Maturity
Fully grown (both physically and emotionally) goats are called adult goats. Usually it takes about 3 years to become a goat fully grown adult. All female goats of all ages are technically does.
Although they are called by different names such as doeling (female goats under one year of age), yearling (female goats who have enter into their second year), dam (female goats who have successfully produced kids).
Some breeders also call the fully mature female goats ‘nanny’, whether they have produced kids or not. Some people also call the mature male goats as billy. And a goat aged more than 3 years are considered as a mature goat.
养一岁山羊作为宠物
Raising yearlinggoat as petsis not a bad idea. Especially through raising yearling goat as pets, you will be able to avoid the hassle of bottle feeding the babies.
一岁的Wethers是宠物的最好的。他们表现得很好，对人类非常友好。但这确实令人作呕，抚养一岁的宠物。在计划将一岁山羊作为宠物的同时，考虑筹集两个。
Because goats usually like to have company of their own species. You can raise two female, two wether, one wether and one female or a mother with a kid.
