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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: smithycraft on June 30, 2012, 06:51:15 pm

Title: New kids
Post by: smithycraft on June 30, 2012, 06:51:15 pm

These two were born this afternoon.  Both girls.  One has those little dangly bits on her neck and the other doesn't.  Anyone know what they're called - I always refer to them as dongles?  That's it for us now, no more births until next year, thank goodness.

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/shallywells/newkids.jpg)

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: jaykay on June 30, 2012, 07:03:07 pm

Oh, they're pretty  :love:

The dangly bits are toggles or sometimes tassels.

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: smithycraft on June 30, 2012, 07:44:29 pm

Thanks JayKay.

Are they breed specific or can any goat be born with them?

Her mother and father both have them.

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: Mammyshaz on June 30, 2012, 08:06:20 pm

They are very cute  :love:

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: tizaala on June 30, 2012, 08:18:38 pm

WATTLES is what the danglies are called , lovely babies , congratulations :thumbsup:

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: little blue on June 30, 2012, 08:24:42 pm

the toggles appear kind of randomly, having toggled parents does not necessarily mean the kids will have them. (I guess this makes it a recessive gene?)
  some breeds have them, some don't seem to (Bagots don't, but they have gorgeous beards!)

Congratulations on your new arrivals, they are beautiful :goat:

Title: Re: New kids
Post by: jaykay on June 30, 2012, 08:36:16 pm

It's a fault in Old English to have toggles. I think because it suggests Toggenburg or Alpine blood.