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[cindyg]

My Pygora/ND doe was showing some mild signs for a few days, so I was keeping her in the kidding stall. No goo, no big udder, just laying by herself when the others were browsing kind of thing and I just had a feeling it would be soon, and yesterday morning she kidded twins, a doeling and a buckling. She is all white, my ND buck is all white and she had a white buckling but the doeling is very Pygmy coloured. So sweet. At 8:00 am nothing going on, when I went back out around noon, there they were, all dried off and nursing. This is her second freshening, first time she had a totally black buckling. So, now I have four bucklings it seems no one wants to buy and a doeling that I want to keep. Hmmm, best re-think my business plan. Oh well, what's a few more mouths to feed, right?

 

[madcow]

She looks like a good momma and such sweet little babies! Congrats!

 

[elevan]

Congratulations!

 

[Egg_Newton]

Congratulations! I have a ND doe and buck both cream with blue eyes. I am wondering if their babies with come out an odd color or like their mom and dad.

 

[cindyg]

Congratulations! I have a ND doe and buck both cream with blue eyes. I am wondering if their babies with come out an odd color or like their mom and dad.

Pretty likely they will have blue eyes, but as for colour, it could be anything. I was surprised at the doeling looking so like a Pygmy since she is only a small percentage, mostly ND. But so cute! My buck has blue eyes, and it sort of seems that the buckling does as well, but the doeling's are definitely brown.

 

[Egg_Newton]

You can tell right away if your baby has blue eyes. They are very blue even at birth. There are goats that can have blue in the inner and brown on the outter of the iris. I've read these are considered genetically blue. This may be what you buckling has. One of my mini nubian bucks have this kind of eyes. But they seem to have gotten more brown as he's gotten older. I can't wait to breed him to my girls to see what percentage of babies have blue eyes.

 

[Missy]

Beautiful doe and babies! Congrats