![]() However, she does believe that if she left them on the registered does, it could make someone think twice about buying.Īccording to a 1980 Report on the Relationship Between Body Conformation and Production in Dairy Goats by C. Roberts said she has never lost a sale because of her herds’ wattle status, and some buyers of wethers have even requested the goats with wattles. It’s not a big deal to most people, but I just want anyone looking at my animals to know, wattles or not, it’s in my bloodline and any animal bought from me will have the potential to throw wattles into their kids.” “That’s why most of the kids and adults don’t show wattles. “I routinely rubber band any wattles on kids that may be registered, but I leave them on the wethers,” she said. Roberts said she thinks goat wattles are adorable, but because a very successful Nubian breeder once told her that registered does show better without them, she removes the wattles on any kids she plans to sell for breeding stock or show. “It is a common practice for breeders to cut them off at birth, so there really isn’t any sure way of knowing if a genetic line carries them or not.” ![]() “Most people think that purebred Nubians don’t have wattles, but they do,” Roberts said. While they may seem more common in Swiss breeds, there are documented cases of wattles in purebred animals of all different dairy breeds. They have been seen in Alpines, La Manchas, Nigerians, Oberhasli, Nubians, Saanens, Sables, and Toggenburgs. ![]() Roberts and other dairy goat breeders agree that wattles can appear in any breed of dairy goat. I’ve watched the breedings and the wattles and it doesn’t make any difference who it is, they all seem to have a 50/50 chance or less of being born with wattles.” Wendy Antoa sent in this picture of her cute Oberhasli kid with “ear bobs.” “It doesn’t matter what doe is bred to what buck, it’s totally random. ![]() “We get about 25 percent or less of the kids born with wattles in our herd,” she said. Roberts began raising Nubian goats in 1991, but it wasn’t until 1997 when she purchased several pure-bred Nubians, that she began to see goat wattles in her herd. I had a doe born with them on her ears once, like earrings!” “They are just little things that hang under the neck,” she said. Yvonne Roberts, R & R Resources Nubians, Oregon said she also saw no purpose in goat wattles. ![]()
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