Blue eyes- Minuature Alpines- GENETICS Question!

[chicken fruit]

We're starting into our own line of Miniature Alpines- starting with three Alpine doelings. I am obviously in the market for a buck and have been looking into possibly buying my own. There's not many in the area that will cover outside does, and I dont want to do AI. I want something that will not only add to the genetics of our offspring but something that will hold added value in the buck above and beyond what other bucks for sale might have. Since eventually he'll have to earn his keep off farm, or be sold, or maybe even whethered.

Which lead me to blue eyed Nigerian Dwarf bucklings.

All I can find about blue eyed goats says theyre ND- but if you're breeding into another breed of goats can the genetics for blue eyes show up there?

This is a pretty remedial question, but genetics are something I havent REALLY sat down to understand yet, and I dont know if there's something that would stop that trait for carrying over into a non-dwarf goat. Could my miniature alpines have blue eyes if their poppa if a blue eyed ND?

 

[glenolam]

Disclaimer! I know absolutely nothing about genetics!

I have an alpine/nubian cross doe with brown eyes who has been bred to a blue eyed ND buck for a few years now.

I'm unsure about her kids prior to last year's kidding, but her wether from last year was blue eyed:

And this year she kidded with twin doelings - one was ivory colored like the buck with brown eyes (mom is in the pic too):

and the other doeling was tan with blue eyes:

So I would imagine that the genes for blue eyes would be passed on, but not 100% consistant.

 

[cmjust0]

I've seen pics of blue-eyed mini-Nubians before, and they're "miniaturized" by crossing with Nigerian Dwarves.. I don't know of any reason why you wouldn't run across the same blue-eye feature in mini-Alpines if you were crossing them to NDs for size, too.



Blue eyed minis seem to fetch a pretty penny, too.

 

[chicken fruit]

yeah thats the goal- just breed them down with a dwarf nigerian buck. Well thats good to hear, that other breeds resulted in blue eyes too! woo!

 

[Ariel301]

I've seen blue-eyed mini LaManchas that came from a blue-eyed Nigerian buck. So yes, it can be passed on with crossbreeding.