76 | How to Choose Future Breeding Bucks for Your Goat Herd

76 | How to Choose Future Breeding Bucks for Your Goat Herd

Update: 2025-09-22
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Hi friends!  Today we’re talking about selecting replacement bucks, the criteria we use to qualify bucks as breeding stock, and we’ll walk through the sorting process and how we handled it this year.  I’ll also be sharing some interesting things we observed while sorting and how it’s going to affect future decisions and data collection.  Let’s get to it!


 


All the Best!


Millie


 


 


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76 | How to Choose Future Breeding Bucks for Your Goat Herd

76 | How to Choose Future Breeding Bucks for Your Goat Herd

Millie Bradshaw - Animal Scientist, Rancher, Homesteader