Color Genetics

[Aped]

From what I've read, when you breed 2 nigerians together, the colors you get are pretty unpredictable. But I assume that is because of all the colors each goat may carry in their genes. My question is if I continually breed nigerians with black and white spots (like holstein cattle) will I eventually get to a point where goats from that line would only breed that color?

There is quite an info about nigerian color genetics here:

http://members.cox.net/foxcroft/genetics.htm

but frankly it's a bit too confusing for me and I majored in biology! Logic would tell me if you continually breed like to like that is what you will end up with.


ETA: Okay perhaps I have my answer at the bottom of that link. But from what I understand random spotting can be any color.


Randomly spotted animals bred to randomly spotted animals will produce only spotted offspring.

 

[helmstead]

So far in my experience, it's a crap shoot. You just never know what you're going to get until you get it. I've seen flashy pintos come from two solids, and solids come from two pintos. Moonspots are hard to predict, too. My buck BBB throws the occasional moonspotted kid, and I can't find where it comes from in his bloodlines.