My doe had 2 kids about 2mths ago, there dwarfs/pygmies well the girl has developed her horns she had them within about a week or two of being born, but the boy still just has nubs. There mother was debudded before we got her, and the father doesnt have horns, we thought debudded but he has nubs like the little boy. Has anybody heard of this before, shouldnt he have horns by now?? thanks!!! :angel2: :whatgoat:
yeppers - even my polled myotonic has little "nubbies" but no horns So the sire sounds like naturally polled!
Thanks for the quick reponse guys!! :clap: So since there polled is there anything special i should know, i did a quick google search, and it recommends that polled not being bred to polled, but polled being bred to normal is that ok...since thats what it looks like happened. (like i said early we thought he was debudded) I must say my billy is alot nicer than any other ones ive had and so is the baby boy, very out going and sweet. The billy is alittle shy but other wise a sweet as my girls. (Ive had 2 other billys that were HORRIBLE...i loved them but they didnt seem to return the love (can i say i love the smileys on this site almost as much as the info!! :dance: )
Polled means that the breeder has one less kid to disbud, some breeders will breed purposely for polled genetics......and 2 polled can be paired together provided that one or the other carries a horned gene from a parent. :wink:
I agree! I breed polled to polled all the time... far less kids to disbud and the bucks tend to be less stinky.
The reason to not breed polled to polled is a hermapradite can occur, but i really is a 1 and a 1000 chance that it will happen. I own one, her name is Lucielle
