Sizing a Goat

[passinggas33]

Just have a curiosity about judging length on goats. Is there a way to ballpark horn length based on other characteristics? I spent some time in the alpine wilderness of Washington and found goats and truly had no idea on how to figure out how long their horns were.

An example is like moose . You can often look at the ears and know that tip to tip is 30” wide. So you can then start to extrapolate.

Can you look at goat ears when they are at attention and judge from there?

Here’s an example of the nanny that I saw and couldn’t figure out how old she really was or how long the horns were.

 

[naptho]

Goat's ears are said to generally be about 6 inches long. This nanny looks sizable to me, and is probably pushing 10 yrs old. Here's a good resource from ADFG's website where I first learned this info.

Mountain Goat Identification, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Mountain Goat Identification

www.adfg.alaska.gov

 

[cdes29]

Goat's ears are said to generally be about 6 inches long. This nanny looks sizable to me, and is probably pushing 10 yrs old. Here's a good resource from ADFG's website where I first learned this info.

Mountain Goat Identification, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Mountain Goat Identification

www.adfg.alaska.gov

This was helpful. Thanks