Goat?

[El Jason]

A big mature goat will take your breath away. Like a bear or a mule deer, if you have to try and convince yourself it’s big, it’s not.

 

[squirrel]

Agree with the assessment of the first two. The last one is a 4 1/2 year old 8 inch billy. He’s still two years away from getting a horse face.

You missed the sarcasm emoji

Left = big ol nanny
middle is a 1-1/2 billie still running with his mama.
3rd was sarcastic horse face.

Those little polar bears sure are cute.

Huge goats are almost always alone or in groups of <4 in my experience, usually alone.

 

[mtnrunner260]

Lots of great knowledge being shared.
In a different unit but got to hike through goat country.

Barely got this young Billy? in the digiscope.
Wish I had a longer time to observe.

 

[WornLeather]

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Here’s an example of a mature Billy that had enlarged glands by October 1 that was longer than I thought at first impression. He was a huge bodied goat with enlarged glands. I knew he was mature but my first impression was he had probably 9-91/2” horns. He turned out to have 10 5/8” horns. It’s nice when you get to watch a buddy walk up to a goat with significant ground growth instead of shrinkage!

Goats are like bears in that their proportions in relation to their body size can be difficult to judge.

The ear length on that goat above was @7”. On a 3 1/2” year old billy it’s about 5-51/2”.


It’s one reason I look for other indicators of age and maturity rather than horn length. In my opinion in MT if you focus on shooting a mature goat you will be happy with the horn length. Different areas will tend to produce a certain length of horn and few in MT will produce a net B&C goat.

This goat was only 6 1/2” years old but from an area with exceptional genetics and feed. I believe it netted right at all time B&C minimum.

Epic goat! Those glands are impressive. Thanks for sharing