color changing goat

[lasergrl]

Just wondering how common this is, and if she may change back...

4 month old nigerian dwarf goat, buckskin. This past couple weeks her coat is coming in....Sundgau??? I'll post before and afters. She gets darker everyday. I know the agouti gene is not real predictable, anyon else go from a tan goat to a black one?

[CookingPam777]

You can see though in the first pic that under that brown it looks very black. My buck did this he was very light tan and black has grown in in some areas.

[LomahAcres]

I had a buck that was all brown with some white get in quite a bit of black on his coat at about 8 months of age. I also have a mini nub looks like she is getting a black blanket, just over a year old. My white bottle baby is now a blonde, 3 months old. So no, color change from kids to adult isn't too uncommon, but not every goat will have it.

[Oldntimes]

Wow!!! She looks so different. I have a friend that that very same thing happened to.

Here is the baby Pic:


And here is her a little older:

[christie]

Lots of animals change there coat color form when theyre born, I call it baby fur. To me in the 1st pic you can totaly see that she is going to be black

[crazygoatgal]

I have never had this happen to me! How interesting, just one more reason why you can't predict a nd's color.

[lasergrl]

I guess! I have seen lots of goats with agouti pattern on the rear (black roots) of a buckskin stay that color, guess you never know!

[lasergrl]

Originally Posted by Oldntimes

Wow!!! She looks so different. I have a friend that that very same thing happened to.

Here is the baby Pic:


And here is her a little older:

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[crazygoatgal]

Well, guess what? I had a doe give birth this morning and guess what she had? One of each and they both look like that, but more so buckskin and they are sooo beautiful.

[jBlaze]

One of my lamancha does has tan shoulders and white on back. She started to get tiny tan spots, we call them freckles, in the white of her back and sides. This when she was about 16 months! Now, I have heard of kids color changing, or the goat looks a totally different color when shaved, but this was an odd one for me.

[Sweet Goats]

It looks like she just lost her "winter type coat". I have a buck that was pretty dark like the Buckskin, now he is really lite.

Not at all unusual to change colors.