What are they for....?

I think it's the ears. Some one took the wattles off my goats and their ears fell off

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You know, none of my lamanchas have them... ?

LOL We do, too. Two of my goats have them, we are hoping to get more babies with them this year.

Kitty

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Kitty

So, is it a certain breed of goat that has wattles?
I have a doeling that has wattles on her neck, Evangeline (the doeling) is part Nubian and Alpine, but she looks like she's part Saanen as well, due to being pure white. Her half sister, Tarantella, (also white, but she has darker hair growing on her back) is Nubian and Toggenburg and she doesn't have them. Is it the Alpine?
Just curious,

There are some funny jokes goin' round here

Adios,

-Rebecca

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Hundred Acre Wood Farm
Knik, Alaska
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Psalm 104:18
"The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats;
and the rocks for the conies."

Don't you know -hey are goat earnings!

Some of my Saanens have them, my Saanen/Alpine doe has them and some of my Nigerian Dwarf does have them. Oh and I had some Saanen/Nubian kids who had them. So, except for the Nigies, they all came from the Saanen side. Polly, the mother and grandmother of the Saanens and Saanen/X's doesn't have any, but she may have had them removed as a kid, as she has whorls of hair where they might have been.

I think it's not so much breed of goat, as certain lines within breeds.

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"Crivens!"

Half Caper Farm - breeding Saanens, Boers and Nigerian Dwarfs

We call them goat bling.

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Anne
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With friends whose words are ever kind and true.
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LONE PINE FARM
Barnesville, PA
Boer goats, Angora goats, Eclectic mix of poultry

I like them as well,i wouldn't mind all mine having them.It's funny to read about some of your Goat's having them by their ear's,i had a Toggenburg Doe when i was younger that had one right at her ear.It looked just like a ear ring,everyone who saw her loved that thing (as they called it) on her ear..

I use to think wattles were disgusting. But if you feel them they are soft. Now that I have a baby goat with them I absolutely love wattles they are so cute!

My beautiful little buck "Opie" has wattles, but you can't see them under his beard. He is the first goat I have ever owned that has wattles and I wasn't sure that I would like them, but I do. He's on the post "better pics of my goats" and it is impossible to see them!!! I am curious to see how many of his babies inherit the "jewelry gene".

I think wattles are cute decoration. A couple of ours have them, and most don't. But we still enjoy all of them!

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Lucy Winchester
Boer and Nubian Goats

I like waddles on pygmies (too cute!), but on dairy breeds I rather dislike them. I read on an ND list that it is thought they are remnants of gills??

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