Lamancha Buck Nubian Doe will there be ears?

[Bedste]

If I breed Lamancha Buck Nubian Doe will there be ears? Is this a good combination? I need to breed my Nubian September or October and I am having trouble finding a NUBIAN buck locally, but a friend of mine has a Lamancha... What do you all think??

 

[kstaven]

Have you ever seen a punnett square and how they work? AKA: they may or may not have the ears of one of the parents or could run a shortened version of the nubian ear or ears baring some resemblance of a saanen ear. Are these both purebred goats? If not and you know what either is crossed to then you may have a better chance of working out the odds.

 

[Roll farms]

Theoretically you'd think you'd end up w/ a few airplane, or shorter-than-full-length eared kids.

I've got a friend w/ a BIG herd of LaManchas and a few Nubians that she crosses on occasion, and I've yet to see her have a kid w/ short ears. They're either all pendulous or elf eared....it makes it easy for her to register them as Recorded Grades b/c they fit one standard or the other.
One year she had a doe have one long eared kid and one gopher eared kid. You'da swore they weren't twins.

Another friend bought 2 LM does last year and bred them to her Nubian buck. Both does had kids w/ gopher ears.

I guess I'm asking if anyone else who does that cross has ever seen an airplane eared LM x Nub? So far I've seen only really long or really short.

edited to change gopher to elf...elf can be up to 2" long, gopher are the more 'correct' little ears that LM's usually have.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Crossed a LaMancha and Nubian once and we got long ears on one and short ears on the other. One had mom's build and coloring and the other dad's. Same that to look at them you'd SWEAR they weren't even brothers much less from the same kidding.

 

[Roll farms]

When you say short ears, do you mean elf, gopher or airplane?

 

[manybirds]

If I breed Lamancha Buck Nubian Doe will there be ears? Is this a good combination? I need to breed my Nubian September or October and I am having trouble finding a NUBIAN buck locally, but a friend of mine has a Lamancha... What do you all think??

I know someone who crosses those two and almost always get ears

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

We haven't tried this cross yet, but we have an Alpine/Lamancha that looks just like an Alpine but has elf ears. She's only 25% Lamancha.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

I'm terrible with Lamancha ear names. It was the one that had the little squidgy bit up top but still looked like an ear eating monster grabbed him in his sleep. Not airplane ears.

 

[ksalvagno]

I saw a LaMancha/Nubian cross at the fair this year and she had elf ears. Mom was a LaMancha and dad was a Nubian.

 

[DKRabbitry]

This is my Lamancha (dam) X Nubian (sire) with elf ears... very long hooked elf ears