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I have read that in South Africa when
the farmers were developing the Boer goat that they only wanted
those with white bodies and red heads and all the other
non-traditional kids were culled from the herd. This trend was
continued until very recently, but has changed somewhat now. In this
process the genes for all other colors and patterns became dorment,
but as we know the genes for some of these colors or patterns are
still there in the background. When two animals with these genes get
bred, we have on occasion a paint, solid red, or some other pattern
that we like. My first buck was from the line of Fred Homeyer’s great Texas Twister and he was solid red. According to Don Smith there were no non-traditional or reds in this blood line. I bred him to a red doe and got a beautiful paint buck we named Ron 70 Twister. Well I didn’t name him, the person (Larry Knoblett) that bought him did so. I later bought him back and have used him in my program for some time now. Larry had bred him to a solid red doe while he had him and the result was a speckled doe like no other I had seen until then. I started a campaign to buy this speckled doeling, and soon after she was weaned I was successful in purchasing her for my herd. We flushed her last year to Dr. Rad’s Valero II and this produced 10 kids. All these were solid red except one traditional. But, she was bred back to this buck before we brought her home which I did not know. While waiting to flush her again I kept telling her she was getting fat and I was going to cut down on her feed, Then to my surprise she had two doelings with the same speckled patterns as their mother. I now have three does with this color pattern and they are full bloods. There are several farms that have what are called polka dots but they are mostly percentages and not the full bloods. We are flushing Speckles in May 2008 and the two doelings as soon as possible. We are using Holly McShane’s Fern Hollow T4 Red Neck buck. This buck has been producing some of the Pok-a-dot kids. We will keep you posted on the outcome of this special program. But for now enjoy the pictures and we will have bucks for sale before you know it… |
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