Scarlet,
To clear up:
1. I said I didn't want to 'breed' meat goats. Why is this such an issue for people? You have a choice for people to want to breed meat goats and some don't - I don't. It's a valid option. I understand males may have issues, I am not being naive, nor am I not planning to know what to do. I simply do not want to breed for meat. This shouldn't be an issue and many people choose their breeding route. I am choosing mine - and would prefer at this point to cease discussing a choice because so many are pro- Boer goat or meat goat production. It's viable for you, great - no judgement. Just not for me. And I'd prefer at this point to stop discussing it as it seems, that as I made a choice to go Nigerian it's a red herring subject. If you want to discuss what I want to do - eventually with males, fine. But I do not want to breed meat. So can we stop there and go to a more productive topic?
2. I didn't say any of mine were registered. None. I said I had one full guernsey and 2 crosses. That's it. No registration.
3. I simply said that the Nigerian, if true, would be a rarity - simply because from what others say on here in forums and you all, Nigerians are a needle in a haystack. It's only logical, not stating any empirical evidence.
4. I know my GG is smaller than the crosses, because of the Togg. Only commenting that she is smaller.
5. I said I did CAE tests. I did them.
6. thank you for confirming the stud fee question.
Sorry but this has gotten a bit frustrating for me. I've been on here a bit, I've prepared a lot of thought with the studs, identified a possible one. I get questions - sometimes more than answers - so I answer those questions and someone says 'aha but you said....' and suddenly we're off course onto another topic about if to breed for meat or not, or if my GG is registered. Most of which I am answering as a question to someone else, and somehow it gets muddled up, and we're on another vein and the train is running and chugging along to a destination, I keep trying to get back on track. It's my trip! : )
So I keep trying to stick to topic here. I want to breed dairy, I do not want to breed meat. I understand males will be difficult, but that is my cross to bear, when it happens and I am aware of it, and I've made my plans - as much as you can - for that possible eventuality. I just don't want to breed meat - period. I've avoided studs that focus in that area for this reason, and I will continue to choose to work in that vein, regardless of others' choices to do otherwise. I want - ideally - to go with Nigerian Dwarf. If I can find one, and it be legitimate. And I'd like to stop there with why. I decided the why for the reasons I did. I do not have registered girls, they'll never be registered - as I noted to Anke for the reason of too much palaver as I didn't get them registered. I did the CAE testing. I know where I want to go with my breeding.
Sorry for the lecture - it just seems like it's kinda gotten off topic with a question, being answered with another question - lots of misunderstandings, and I think some judgements that I choose a non-meat route stud. But this is the thing, people will choose what they choose - and it will be them dealing with the fall-out. If you have males that you cannot use, and therefore you breed to meat crosses - that is great for you. It isn't for me and I'll have to deal with that. I do not take lightly in any way pets being bred and left on the market. I hate how many poor staffies are out there being bred in large numbers, and most seem to go to dog pounds.
Male goats are always a problem for most breeders - and they got to do what they have to do to avoid it, or sort it out. You have your way, I'll have mine.
Sorry for the blunt rant - but would really like this to be back on course of the topic at hand. I am not a fly-by-night breeder. Granted I am not experienced, but I am making the choices I think best for me and at some point, you gotta let people do that without a lecture in how you do it? And I'd like it also, if we don't get strung up on tangents - I feel like I've gotten very few answers, and a lot of questions, which then opened up more questions (sometimes unnecessarily as I've said all along, my goats are crosses, unregistered, my GG was smaller than my crosses - I do know these and why, I am CAE tested - but just saying the tangents go on to new ones and meanwhile my OP is going a bit off-course).
Sorry for the bluntness too...hope this can just get back on track.