Over the last few days while observing our ram flock of eight, I have seen our youngest ram, Moogega (black and white flecket) who is just over 1 year old "testing the waters" to move up in the hierarchy.
Rams establish a social order among their group by head butting, pushing and shoving each other. Generally the one who runs away, surrenders or loses the battle (hopefully without injury) is then moved down a rank within their hierarchy.
It seems a little early in the year for this to begin but here goes....
After this bit of a scuffle we did have to move Diamond Fred (dark grey katmoget) into a pen in the barn to care for his cut above the eye.
I'm hoping they are done determining their social order because we've got a long way to go before breeding season when this type of behavior really kicks up.
