A Realization at the Auction

 The other night as I awaited my turn to load my new herd members, I realized how openly responsive and demonstrative animals are in their baser instincts.  Some goats are cyclic in their breeding, every 23 days; while others are seasonal like deer.  An evening at a September and October auction reveals the total inhibition of animal behavior.   It's a shame our society doesn't realize how similar casual sex is to animal behavior.

If we'd have remained closer to our agricultural purpose, I think much of our societal sexual problems would not exist, or at least so openly.  As I watched these animals practically injure themselves trying to get from one pen to another, I thought of how similar the open sexuality is in our society.  The stench of breeding season literally hangs over the entire place, and it's easy to tell by the smell and raucous when a big buck will be the next one through the ring.

I'm not saying reproduction is dirty, and I'm certainly not saying intimacy is an animal act.  What I am saying is open sexuality; without intimacy is precisely an animal act!  We have the societal breakdown to prove it.  For those who have ever visited the worldly singles scene, I can assure you there are similarities to a singles bar and a livestock auction, and that ought not to be so!  Sadly, it's not even confined to singles bars anymore.

First and foremost, in an auction, the interest in bidding is based solely on physical appearance, which definitely includes anatomical features.  Remember, these are animals and breeding is instinctual.  As a herd keeper, I don't consider anything except a buck's size, breed, and features.  When purchasing a doe, I consider her build for kidding, her breed, and her udder.  Knowing how driven these animals are by their baser instinct, I make a point of buying only does or a single buck at any given auction, unless I've got a big stock trailer.  Each animal is probably in the ring about a minute.  All buyers make a very superficial judgment when determining to bid and when determining to stop bidding.


There's not a thing wrong with purchasing animals based upon their physical traits and appearance, especially for a working farm.  Very few milk goats are advertised showing their face as the selling point and I absolutely base my decision regarding a buck on his horns and aggressive breeding attributes.  Stella was a wonderful asset to the herd for all her years.  This Buck below, look at those horns, and he's not even a two year old!


Let this sink in for a moment.  How long has our society considered superficial attraction a foundation for a relationship or worse, simply casual sex?  We are not animals and the open display of non-intimacy is causing serious societal breakdown, and also apparently the need for more "pens."

 When I smell too much cologne on a man, hear his ridiculous lines, or suffocate in the aroma of some woman's perfume while she displays ample cleavage in social settings, I think of the livestock auction through breeding season.