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  • Glenna Rose October 26, 2013 at 7:17pm

    My first reaction to the question was: "Surprise!" and that is part of the fun of these sweeties. :-)

  • polly jackson October 25, 2013 at 2:01pm
    My registered kids all have predominantly red sires. 2 are red and 1 is light gold. My 3 little unregistered does all have different color combinations. I just bred my first doe this week to my dark red buck. She is light gold. Hopefully she will take and have some beautiful kids in March .
  • polly jackson October 25, 2013 at 1:56pm
    I love the surprise factor in nigerian dwarf goats . I am new at this and I wondered if there was any dominant colors. I've seen some kids look like the dame and some all have different colors.
  • Diane Kennedy October 25, 2013 at 1:41pm

    Oh, I know, but some arguments are not worth having. I own the little buckling's sire and dam, and they are both exceptionally good-natured goats, as he was right from birth. The dam is an easy milker and produces sweet, creamy milk, so I decided to take him back so I can breed him to my other (unrelated) doe. Amusingly, last year my tan doe produced a black kid, a tan kid and a white spotted kid with black and brown "racing stripes" down his legs. The little tan buckling's dam is buckskin, black and white, so if color were a genetically heritable trait, he actually would have "tri-color genes." :)  I took back the wether I sold with him so he'd have a buddy to live with while he's quarantined from the other goats. I had him tested for CAE and CL, and did a fecal on him (and got a strongyle count of 3,300 epg!).

    Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:

    Attempting to breed for color is a complete waste of time and energy and is generally only attempted by newbies who are breeding pets. And anyone who even refers to a ND as a tri-color doesn't know proper color terminology. I assume she means broken buckskins, which are often incorrectly referred to by new people as tri-color. Breeding for color or blue eyes is a huge pet peeve of mine. I'm sorry to say that I completely lost patience with a potential buyer a few years ago when she asked me to take a picture of a buck's other side because she wanted to know how many spots he had! To make matters worse, she was also trying to talk me down on the price, which totally makes sense because she said in her very first email that she had a pet breeding program, so of course she didn't care about milking and conformation. After having a similar experience with another person (only the third in 11 years to offer me less than the stated price on my website), now when someone emails saying that they're looking for a particular color or blue eyes, I just say that I don't have what they're looking for -- and it's true, I don't have cheap pet goats. Falling off my soapbox now!

    I find the surprise colors to be a perk of having NDs. I have noticed that one of my black bucks tends to have a lot of buckskin kids, which is really funny because his dam was chocolate and his sire was red and white, so the buckskin is back in his pedigree. Quite interestingly, some years, a doe will have kids that look like carbon copies of her in terms of color, and other years, her kids will be all sorts of colors. My very first doe, Star, who was a very flashy black and white doe, had three white bucks one year. Too bad I wasn't into cart training, or I could have had a really cool team of white wethers.

  • Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres October 25, 2013 at 12:40pm

    Cool bit to know about what to officially call "tri colored" goats!! You saw the video I made of my buck... he's what I WOULD have called tri colored. That's what you're saying is really called a broken buckskin? He's predominantly white, with red, and black areas.

  • Deborah Niemann-Boehle October 25, 2013 at 12:29pm

    Attempting to breed for color is a complete waste of time and energy and is generally only attempted by newbies who are breeding pets. And anyone who even refers to a ND as a tri-color doesn't know proper color terminology. I assume she means broken buckskins, which are often incorrectly referred to by new people as tri-color. Breeding for color or blue eyes is a huge pet peeve of mine. I'm sorry to say that I completely lost patience with a potential buyer a few years ago when she asked me to take a picture of a buck's other side because she wanted to know how many spots he had! To make matters worse, she was also trying to talk me down on the price, which totally makes sense because she said in her very first email that she had a pet breeding program, so of course she didn't care about milking and conformation. After having a similar experience with another person (only the third in 11 years to offer me less than the stated price on my website), now when someone emails saying that they're looking for a particular color or blue eyes, I just say that I don't have what they're looking for -- and it's true, I don't have cheap pet goats. Falling off my soapbox now!

    I find the surprise colors to be a perk of having NDs. I have noticed that one of my black bucks tends to have a lot of buckskin kids, which is really funny because his dam was chocolate and his sire was red and white, so the buckskin is back in his pedigree. Quite interestingly, some years, a doe will have kids that look like carbon copies of her in terms of color, and other years, her kids will be all sorts of colors. My very first doe, Star, who was a very flashy black and white doe, had three white bucks one year. Too bad I wasn't into cart training, or I could have had a really cool team of white wethers.

  • Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres October 25, 2013 at 11:56am

    Good luck to that breeder!! I would have told her no backsies. lol

  • Diane Kennedy October 25, 2013 at 10:45am

    I don't think they do, but I just took back a tan and white buckling I sold to a breeder who later decided she wanted to breed tri-color Nigerians, and decided to buy a tri-color buck from another breeder. The buckling I sold to her then became superfluous, and she asked me to take him back. Now I have three bucks, a wether and three does! Some farmer I am!

  • Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres October 24, 2013 at 10:44pm

    I haven't noticed that they do yet!! lol I have a red goat that gave birth to silver and black peppered and a roan... (tripplets) and I have a black and white goat that had a red goat, and a tricolor red white and black set of twins! The black and white goat came from a solid black male and a solid white female. lol

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