Tell me about wattles

I like wattles. Last year when I was purchasing my bucks, I had a choice of two bucks in a litter, one with wattles, one without. I chose the one with wattles. His first kids were born Saturday morning, and all three of them had wattles. Since my other Saanen buck does not have wattles it is easy to tell the kids of the two bucks apart

CJ, she looks like she's wearing an earring. Cute!

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It does look like an earring. Kinda goofy looking with it being just one....lol. These are the first goat babies born here and I will tell ya.....I am hooked. I am currently waiting on my Dora to kid. She is a togg/alpine cross that I bottle raised last year....my very first goat. I am so excited.......

I love wattles, our Pygmy/ND doe has them as do her bucklings. Double Stuff used his moms wattles as a "paci". Cutest thing ever!

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I don't like the look of them. They just never grew me. (punny eh?) Of the three kids our doe delivered, one has wattles, the other two do not. They are perfectly shaped and spaced equally under each ear like earrings. We'd thought about removing them, but hey - I wouldn't appreciate someone tinkering with my perceived imperfections (unless they were life threatening), so what gives me the right to start docking things off of her? We left them. It's how nature made her. (To that end, it irritates me also how the tails and ears are so often docked on various breeds of dog for appearance sake).

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Lol! Funny thing... I didn't like wattles to begin with. Then I bought a Pygmy doe that had them (who became my favorite, personality-wise) and they kind of grew on me (no pun intended.) Bred to a buck without wattles she produced a doe with wattles and a buck without.

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