I finally bought a goat

[misfitmorgan]

The Diary crosses to Nubian or Boer often still come out without the roman nose. Our Reg doe is half Saanen and half Nubian and no Roman nose...our alpine x boer/nub kids no roman nose either. i wonder if thats not a dominate trait....

 

[ldawntaylor]

misfitmorgan, perhaps you already know this but airplane ears is a description on the ADGA paperwork for registration. It usually denotes a mixed heritage though. In essence the ears are too big to stay erect. In terms of the goat in this thread I would say airplane fits.

The kid does look a lot like my Toggenberg/Nubian mixed kids over the years. At least the ones where the Togg coloring shows the most.

 

[OneFineAcre]

@misfitmorgan Alpines have erect ears.

I would say that he is an Alpine Nubian cross about 3 months old. And very cute.

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And maybe some Togg too.

 

[misfitmorgan]

misfitmorgan, perhaps you already know this but airplane ears is a description on the ADGA paperwork for registration. It usually denotes a mixed heritage though. In essence the ears are too big to stay erect. In terms of the goat in this thread I would say airplane fits.

The kid does look a lot like my Toggenberg/Nubian mixed kids over the years. At least the ones where the Togg coloring shows the most.

Haha nope i didnt know that at all, thank you for the info. Guess i should really stop calling them airplane ears then lol.

 

[babsbag]

Usually "airplane" indicates some Nubian lurking in the gene pool.

My Boer Alpine crosses have a little straighter nose than the Alpines but no where near what my purebred Boers have.