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silkieloverz123 said:
Awww! So cute! I love the little brown buck!
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Ya.... I was so excited when I thought he was a she, lol. I love Sables, but so many of them are black or sundgau (black with white points), so I try to breed for different colors also. He would have been great, but that's ok. I've been wanting a solid black doe. She has a little white star on the top of her head and some frosty hairs over her nose/ears. I bet I still love her the same, lol.
 
H Diamond said:
Ya.... I was so excited when I thought he was a she, lol. I love Sables, but so many of them are black or sundgau (black with white points), so I try to breed for different colors also. He would have been great, but that's ok. I've been wanting a solid black doe. She has a little white star on the top of her head and some frosty hairs over her nose/ears. I bet I still love her the same, lol.
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New to goats and I have what may be a silly question. How can you "try to breed for different colors"? Your mama was silver colored, can she get pregnant by multiple goats of different colors (such as a dog can?) and then, give birth to the three different colors in that way? Do I make sense? (I think I confused myself more than I was before!)
 
lovemybudgie517 said:
New to goats and I have what may be a silly question. How can you "try to breed for different colors"? Your mama was silver colored, can she get pregnant by multiple goats of different colors (such as a dog can?) and then, give birth to the three different colors in that way? Do I make sense? (I think I confused myself more than I was before!)
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I haven't studied goat color genetics, and there really isn't much research on the subject. My doe is a brown chamoisee (kind of a roan color) with darker points. She was bred to a sundgau buck (all black with white points) and I got a solid black, a solid black with a star on the head, and one that is very similar to momma's coloring. Last year I had the same pairing (sire and dam) and got 2 silver chamoisee (silver/grey roan with darker points. Last year I also bred a broken chocolate brown doe to the same buck and got an all black kid.
When I said "breed for color" I want you to know that first and foremost, I breed to the breed standard. (confirmation, size, well attached udders, etc) Secondly, I breed for easy to hand milk udders (decent sized teats with good sized orifices) and high(er) milk production in their first lactation. Thirdly, I try to keep kids back and purchase goats that first meet those first two standards, then are also different color than the "average" Sable dairy goat which is the Sundgau color (black with white points) My does are all different colored, but my buck is a Sundgau. He'll be moving on this year, and my new buck is a solid black. He throws amazing udders, and is a little more correct than my last buck. So even for me who likes color, you can see I chose bucks of a certain quality over color. In my opinion, that is how any breeding should be. You should constantly be striving to improve the animals you have/the breed. Unfortunately, and this is most obvious in the Nigerian world where everyone wants spots and blue eyes, some folks just breed for pretty colors or breed just because they want a baby. But.. that's a topic for another day, lol.

So, back on track, some colors seem to be more dominant in goats than others. Sometimes you have no idea what color you're going to get. Yes a goat can be bred by more than one buck. A prime example is a nubian doe bred to a nubian buck and had an oops when the lamancha buck got out the same day. She kidded with a nubian eared kid and a no eared kid. If this occurs (being bred by two bucks) they can't be registered unless you send them in for DNA testing.

Now, do I make sense? LOL
 
H Diamond said:
Ya.... I was so excited when I thought he was a she, lol. I love Sables, but so many of them are black or sundgau (black with white points), so I try to breed for different colors also. He would have been great, but that's ok. I've been wanting a solid black doe. She has a little white star on the top of her head and some frosty hairs over her nose/ears. I bet I still love her the same, lol.
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Sorry. Yea when we first saw Scooter, we wanted him to be a doe sooooo bad! So are you keeping them?
 
You do make very good sense (I had to read it a couple times, to get it straight, since this is all new) but, that does make sense. How interesting and I can say that I am surely learning more than I thought I would, in here!! Thanks for taking the time to educate me. I'm sorry that you had to go through all that, I thought it would be so simple. Hmmm......I'm gonna have to figure out, if it's possible, to make a file and save the replies for future reference. I really do appreciate all that information! So, when that Lamancha got to your little female, were you upset with the turn out......what do you do with the babies that have the mix breed? Interesting....
 
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my next goat due I rescued her I know her milk bag doesnt work but I didn't breed her I got her breed I just couldn't see her living in a animal shelter the last date she could of been wit a male was Oct 14 so that should have her due any day
 
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she is such a sweet goat I couldn't leave her she lives wit my weather when I but my male in wit my females she will never get breed again I feel bad that she is breed now
 
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