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Where do you keep your buck?

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Mine live together in a pen right outside my bedroom window. I hadn't originally meant for that to be my buck pen. It was the first pen we built, so I could keep an eye on the first doelings I bought. As my doe population increased and I needed more room for them, we built a much bigger goat yard across the road for the girls. Around this same time, I bought my first buck and put him in the smaller pen. I like having my boys in a pen away from the does and in a place I can keep an eye on them. They aren't very stinky yet and by the time they get real smelly, it's cold enough we keep the bedroom window closed most of the time. The doelings are in a pen on the opposite side of the house on the other side of where the cars are parked. I can see them from the computer room, but the bucks can't from their pen.
The pasture is adjacent to my main doe pen with a gate to close it off. In fall, I'll take a chosen buck down to the pasture and see if any of the girls I intend to breed to him come to the fenceline to be bred. I then put those does in the pasture with the buck. If a doe who is to be bred to another buck comes to the fence, I'll get that buck and hand breed them outside the pen.