Author Topic: New kids  (Read 2693 times)

smithycraft

  • Joined Apr 2012
New kids
« 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.



jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: New kids
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2012, 07:03:07 pm »
Oh, they're pretty  :love:

The dangly bits are toggles or sometimes tassels.

smithycraft

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: New kids
« Reply #2 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.


Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: New kids
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2012, 08:06:20 pm »
They are very cute  :love:

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: New kids
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2012, 08:18:38 pm »
WATTLES is what the danglies are called , lovely babies , congratulations :thumbsup:

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: New kids
« Reply #5 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:
Little Blue

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: New kids
« Reply #6 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.

 

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