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03/30/08, 10:14 AM
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What are they for....?
Waddles.
Are they there for decoration?
We were wondering why waddles were worn.
Any ideas?
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03/30/08, 10:18 AM
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Ohhh... I love waddles!! All of our Alpines had them when I was a kid. I don't think people who show like them, though. Someone told me that showers cut them off...
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03/30/08, 10:45 AM
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Ya mean wattles?  Decorations?
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03/30/08, 11:28 AM
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They are to make you go "Awwwww......What are they for?" Thus, we have this thread. 
They don't serve any purpose but they are cute. I like some wattles but don't want a lot of them.
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03/30/08, 11:51 AM
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ok I gotta know what are wattles? Are they the little bell like things that hang from their necks? I have a doeling with them and her older sister has them too and I wondered what they where.
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03/30/08, 12:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dixiegal62
ok I gotta know what are wattles? Are they the little bell like things that hang from their necks? I have a doeling with them and her older sister has them too and I wondered what they where.
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Yep, thats what they are. One parent or the other must have had them.
I had a wattleless Alpine buck. Every kid he threw had wattles. I checked his neck closely and sure enough there were the marks where his breeder had removed them when he was a kid!
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03/30/08, 03:39 PM
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we call them goat jewelry!
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03/30/08, 03:55 PM
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I rather like them.
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03/30/08, 04:25 PM
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Our herd queen Clarice has them, but not one of her kids has had them. I personally like them, but don't want a whole lot, but a few are nice.
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03/30/08, 04:49 PM
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Our buck has them too. So do his boys. I think they're cute.
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03/30/08, 07:13 PM
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i have a newborn NuMancha buckling that has only one wattle. looks really funny. whats even stranger he has long nubian ears! (on both sides ) His mom is pure white with wattles and and Dad is a wattleless, big, black and white spotted nubian, and the little guy is a beige with a few brown spots. The way the genes sort out just fascinates me.
Cute little guy, shame its a buckling, or he'd have made a good little milker for someone.I guess freezer camp is in his future though, since mix breed bucks dont have much sales potential.  Bummer, huh?
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03/30/08, 08:07 PM
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DH and I love wattles. Have them in our mini mancha line, but no nigies with 'em.
My horse vet was out this past week to geld a jack for me and she fell in love with one of the mini mancha kids, so she ended up buying him and we spent quite a bit of time by the goats. She likes wattles as well and said she told someone once that they started out milking them (the wattles that is!) until someone figured out how to get an udder on a dairy goat and the person believed her! DUH!
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03/31/08, 12:54 PM
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I think they are so cute! none of our dairy goats have them. Some of our pygoras do though. It is cute as anything when the goat is sheared, but. WHen the goat is in fleece and you are shearing it, you need to kow where that goats wattles are so you don't cut them! I nearly have. THe fleece grows on the wattels too, so that looks funny when I cut the fleece off of them. We have one doe that has ear-ring wattles, right up where her ear meets her body, but one is a little higher than the other.
It is hard on the dairy goats to shave around them for show.
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03/31/08, 07:19 PM
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Quote:
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I don't think people who show like them, though. Someone told me that showers cut them off...
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Some showers might remove them- the theory is that this makes the neck look longer- but many top show herds keep wattles. The '06 Res. National Champion & '06 Jr National Champion Toggs both have wattles, as a random example.
The ancient Romans believed that wattled goats were more fertile and selected for wattles.
I have quite a few wattled goats. If you pull their wattles, their ears wiggle
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03/31/08, 07:39 PM
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I have one Alpine Doe that has wattles, can you guess what her name is????
Waddles!
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03/31/08, 08:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrounger
Waddles.
Are they there for decoration?
We were wondering why waddles were worn.
Any ideas?
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We were wondering why waddles were worn. We were wanderin why waddles were worn. We were wandern why waddwools were warn.
Yea, you try it.
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03/31/08, 08:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deetu
We were wondering why waddles were worn. We were wanderin why waddles were worn. We were wandern why waddwools were warn.
Yea, you try it.
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 Good one!
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03/31/08, 09:03 PM
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We had a pygmy wether that had them right under his ears, So we named him Earrings!
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I thought they were used to hold their horns on???!!!!
Alice in virginia
whose goats have wattles!! and horns
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I either heard or read somewhere that long time ago...... They were scent glands and now just pretty jewelry since they aren't needed now.
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