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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: tattycat on March 13, 2014, 07:43:15 pm

Title: Do nanny's have a preference for nanny kids?
Post by: tattycat on March 13, 2014, 07:43:15 pm

Anyone noticed any preferences out there? I've one nanny seems to only rear girls....

Title: Re: Do nanny's have a preference for nanny kids?
Post by: Roxy on March 15, 2014, 04:15:34 pm

Yes!! We have a small sanaan x pygmy, and each time she kids, we know exactly what she has had without looking. The male is usually standing yelling either in the corner or in the water bucket where she has put him, whilst the female she is fine with.  Even if she has a single, if its male, she is not in the slightest bit interested, and every attempt to get her to feed him is hopeless.....you know who ends up bottling him.
 
 

Title: Re: Do nanny's have a preference for nanny kids?
Post by: shygirl on March 15, 2014, 05:19:19 pm

do you mean nature or nurture?
its the male who determines the sex. we have always had a strong ratio of males in whatever species.
of course girls are the superior sex.  :-J :-J

Title: Re: Do nanny's have a preference for nanny kids?
Post by: tattycat on March 15, 2014, 10:03:20 pm

Hiya Shygirl. I mean both!!

YAY Roxy!! Sorry,  but I'm glad I'm not the only one!! Nd funnily enough she's a Sanaan. (spelt right this time? lol)She's kidded me 7 kids in two kiddings, and only reared 1 of them!!
Then beat her daughter up last year nd stole one of her kids!! A female....... :roflanim: