'Body Styles' on goats?

[QoTL]

Just wondering.

Comparing my alpineX (not sure what she's crossed with.. she looks like an alpine only smaller, with rather delicate legs and small feet), who looks bloated after a day of grazing, with my Nubian who still looks fairly trim after a day of grazing..


Is this dairy vs. less dairy body style? And is this any indication of milking potential?


The nubian definitely gives more milk right now. Is this only my particular goats, or something applicable to others as well?

[deineria]

I've read that proper management of the growth in kids determines how large the rumen ends up - so some goats will not get the large rumen they should have or of other goats because of the way they were raised.

[shiandpete.1]

We have 3 completewly different body styles in our milking girls and even in our kids. The milking girls: Carla; thicker boned, very deep bodied but with great dairy character, made more like a Tog than a Lamancha. Gloria (1/2 sister to Carla) very dairy, with a different shape of body depth, more feminine bone style in my opinion, very dairy and Billie Jean is very long, going to be very tall and is slender, with a very long neck and a thin longer face.

I think what matters more with the ability to milk is blood lines that are very milky and a properly made udder that is very capacious to hold all that milk, and if it properly attached so that it doesn't break down rapidly.

I prefer the heavier made goats over the long and slender but in reality I love em all!