Disbudding help (warning pic)

[Green Acres Farm]

So there IS such thing as a homozygous polled doe who is not a hermaphrodite?

 

[babsbag]

How would know if she were homozygous other than breeding her and tracking her offspring?

 

[Green Acres Farm]

I don't know.
In Goat Medicine and a couple other places I have seen, they claim there is no such thing as a homozygous polled true female.
I sure hope there is.

 

[babsbag]

I see more and more breeders breeding polled to polled but I don't know if they are homozygous offspring or not but surely some of them must be. If I ever find a nice polled registered Alpine buck I would buy him in a second as I have a lot of polled does and just increasing the odds of not having to disbudd would be nice.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Oh, I forgot that I read in Goat Medicine that their theory (I think) was that some breeds carry the hermaphrodite gene with the polled gene and others do not. Now I might be remembering totally wrong.

 

[Latestarter]

Wow... maybe I should have started a new thread?

 

[babsbag]

How old is that book...

Goat Medicine

 

[babsbag]

http://www.arkansasdairygoats.com/polledgoats.htm

 

[Green Acres Farm]

How old is that book...

It is the new version. Please tell me it is accurate after the price I paid!!!!

 

[Green Acres Farm]

http://www.arkansasdairygoats.com/polledgoats.htm

Thanks! Maybe I will breed my polled buck and polled doe together...