The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: mart6 on March 28, 2015, 05:00:35 pm
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Was chatting to a good friend who has a large herd of Boers and she said that her average was 75% girls for last year ,on a large herd thought that was really good.
She said this year is 50/50% each but chatting to several friends they seem to be getting more boys
How is eveyone else doing this year? And how does it differ from last year
Mine is 60/40 boys but just getting going so early days
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from two kiddings last year I got 1 boy and 3 girls. This year I got 2 boys and 3 girls again, same Does. One doe has given me three sets of twin girls, so she clearly has strong girl giving genes :D
interesting my sheep gave me a lot of boys last year (75% boys!) this year, so far... 90% girls!!
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This year (from 7nannies kidded) - 9 boys and 3girls
last year (5 nannies kidded) - 7 girls and 1 boy....
no rhyme or reason to it, different males, some AI... just one of those things.
But am still disappointed this year though - kidded 3 GG nannies and no female kid from them...
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We had our first kids last weekend, 2 sets of twins from same buck, 3 male & 1 female. I co own the buck with friend in village, she had 2 sets of twins one set of males & one set of females (her does are not Boers).
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80/20 in favour of girls this year so we are happy peoples we've had 35/65 with our piglets aswell this year so there's at plan at foot so I'm really in the minority on the farm