Udders- Good/Bad/Ugly/Improved UPDATED! 3/12/18

[Bayleaf Meadows]

I thought this video gave a lot of information, mostly because it was a video and they could talk about what was happening as the milking and recording were going on.

 

[Hens and Roos]

I'll post a picture- this is our doe Obie- 2017 was her 3rd freshening with triplets(1B, 2D)
she dam raised her kids and we maybe milked her once or twice this season. She is harder to milk with the small teat size. Of course her 2017 doelings wont be bred until fall of 2018 so we don't know if any improvement to their udder until they kid. At this point we are thinking that her udder won't change much if at all.

 

[Southern by choice]

Did anyone see the poll on the Nigerian page on facebook? The one about what color you breed for? Moonspots was the highest! Then conformation. The breeder we got rose from keeps most of her heavily moonspotted offspring.

Seriously

What is the best time frame after a doe freshens to take pictures of her udder?

Once the edema goes down.


I think often it is selecting one or two things you really want to work on and then progressing from there. JMO
I like a high rear udder height, and a wide udder arch, and well placed teats.
I will pick those over capacity.
Of course to have a good udder the first two things are important... the teats not so much. I don't want to lose teat placement though.
Having a beautiful capacious udder but the teats are so far to the outside they are touching the legs is not something I want.

@Hens and Roos how many hours is the fill? How many month in lactation?

 

[OneFineAcre]

@OneFineAcre - would you mind if I posted some photos of your goats' udders? I take more of yours than I do of mine...

Sure, go for it.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Did anyone see the poll on the Nigerian page on facebook? The one about what color you breed for? Moonspots was the highest! Then conformation. The breeder we got rose from keeps most of her heavily moonspotted offspring.

There is a big farm out on the west coast that really, really breeds for moonspots and they have a lot of them. When I say a big farm they have over 100 kids per year.
They say they have quality with color, but I haven't seen anything to back up the quality part other than they have animals from a lot of well known farms.

But, they seem at this time to have a business model that is working for them.

 

[Hens and Roos]

@Southern by choice, this was taken about 1.5 months after kidding, her does were with her all the time so never got a good overnight fill...we didn't have a good way to separate the kids over night given how many buckling we had.

 

[Southern by choice]

@Southern by choice, this was taken about 1.5 months after kidding, her does were with her all the time so never got a good overnight fill...we didn't have a good way to separate the kids over night given how many buckling we had.

Ok, so when you look at her udder- even though she doesn't have much fill right now what do you see?
What do you like?
What do you think needs improvement?

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

I liked this photo of @OneFineAcre's does' udders because you can see consistency in the breeding program.

 

[Southern by choice]

Good pic- now what would OFA say he wants to improve?

Personally the two closest to the screen I like the udder arch and height
The third from us I like the teat placement

Bayleaf- your doe just freshened- that would be a good pic... what do you like what do you want to improve? Of course right now she will have a lot of edema.

 

[TAH]

Only pics I ever got from my girl but I thought I could post!

These pics were taken after milking.

Things I would like to have seen improved?

She could have had a better attachment in the front, Teats more straight down (they tilted forward), along with a wider rump and hips for more udder room (her hips were pretty tight), That's all I can notice.

This girl was a dream to milk!