Boer and Milk Goats

[nstone630]

My 2 male goats are a mix of Boer and Milk. I'm wondering - I believe the one which is much thicker, to have favored more of the Boer. And the one that is a bit slender has favored the Milk?

I don't have a picture handy... But, is that how those two breeds would run?
Boer - stocky and large
Milk - Slender

??

 

[goatgurl]

yes, that's how it works. you can have twins out of a dairy doe and a meat buck or vice versa and one can be heavier like the meat and the other can be more slender like the dairy. to make it more confusing, lets say they are twin does, the meaty one may have more milk then the slender one. or the slender one can have meatier kids. you don't really know till they freshen themselves. i use to breed my dairy does to a meat buck to get the heavier kids to butcher for myself.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Aren't genetics ahhhh-mazing?!? I had a Pygmy doe bred to a Kinder buck - totally an "uh-oh". She kidded with the tiniest petite pygmy looking doeling and a bigger, rangy, floppy-eared Kinder looking buckling.

 

[nstone630]

Too Funny! So much fun learning about my boys!!

This might sound like a stupid question but Male Milk goats, do they produce milk?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It happens. My neighbor had a registered, show-quality pygmy buck that started lactating! Geeze louise, lol. And to make it even more fun - it was discovered by a judge in the show ring!

 

[mikiz]

Well you'd expect him to sire some winning milkers if he himself was getting in on it!

 

[babsbag]

You can even have does give you kids with two different sires. I had an Alpine give me twins this year and one was obviously Alpine and the second one was obviously half Boer, airplane ears and all. I didn't realize that my little Boer buck was old enough...oops.

 

[nstone630]

Funny! I guess I'll have to wait and see if this guy produces anything.

My bigger Boer goat (Smokey) is quite rough with my obvious milk goat brother (PTR...paper towel roll because of the ears)....Do I need to worry about him actually hurting PTR?