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04/03/11, 05:18 PM
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Polled or not? (pics)
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04/03/11, 08:01 PM
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You should be able to feel nubs if they are going to have horns. Id say by the lack of seeing any and the fact of the way the hair is growing that they are highly possible that they are polled.
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04/03/11, 08:15 PM
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So far I can't feel anything, but they are only a few days old. I was told that horned goats will have swirls of hair where the horns will be, but I'm not really seeing swirls at this point. I already forgot exactly what my horned doeling's head looked like before we disbudded her.
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04/03/11, 08:48 PM
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Are either of the parents polled? The pictures look polled.
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04/03/11, 09:02 PM
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Yes, the father is polled.
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04/03/11, 09:21 PM
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I can never tell from pictures very well but the 1st 1 looks polled to me for sure, the rest is hard to tell.
Even at 4 days old, bucklings for sure should already be starting to get the horn buds, doelings take a little longer sometimes. If you can't feel anything yet, then maybe they all are polled. Wouldn't that be nice?
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04/03/11, 09:26 PM
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I have Polled babies and yes they look polled. The little toupe on top.
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04/03/11, 10:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backfourty,MI.
Even at 4 days old, bucklings for sure should already be starting to get the horn buds, doelings take a little longer sometimes. If you can't feel anything yet, then maybe they all are polled. Wouldn't that be nice?
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04/03/11, 10:13 PM
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Pictures are hard to tell. But a buckling that is going to have horns you can feel the nubs.
my two kids a buckling and a doeling born this last week, the buckling had the swirls and bumps, by day 2 the nubs are more pronounced, my doeling doesn't have the swirls she looks allot like your pics and she still doesn't have nubs. Doelings seem to take a little longer to develop their horns but only by a few days.
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04/03/11, 10:32 PM
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I hope they are polled and some look polled, but at a few days old, you would not usually feel horns on does.
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04/03/11, 10:35 PM
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They all look polled. 
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04/04/11, 10:38 AM
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Yeah I can't feel anything, even on the bucklings, so that's a good sign! I just pray that at least one doe is polled... I'm going to keep any polled doelings. If ALL of them are polled, Woohoo!!! There's a gal in town that does disbudding for me for $20 a head, which is a bargain as far as I'm concerned, but I just hate the whole process of disbudding. That's why I'm breeding for polled.
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04/10/11, 10:56 AM
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Update--I am 99% sure that ALL of these babies are polled. The bucklings still do not have horns, and neither do the doelings. On two of the babies I can feel bumps, but they are round, and I can move the skin around over the bumps. I can't believe my luck! Woohoo!! 
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04/10/11, 11:24 AM
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Well that's Great news! If they were not going to be polled you'd for sure be able to fee little horn buds on them, especially the bucklings! Looks like your going to increase your little heard pretty quick.
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04/10/11, 11:30 AM
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Yep... I'll be keeping the doelings, and selling the bucklings. Anyone want one? I assume there isn't much of a market for unregistered mini-Saanens even if polled, so I'm planning to wether them around six weeks of age, unless someone specifically asks for a buck.
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04/10/11, 11:34 AM
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Quote:
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Yep... I'll be keeping the doelings, and selling the bucklings. Anyone want one? I assume there isn't much of a market for unregistered mini-Saanens even if polled, so I'm planning to wether them around six weeks of age, unless someone specifically asks for a buck. |
Oh I don't know about that. I'd take one in a heart beat if you were closer!
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04/10/11, 11:37 AM
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Here's a photo... Sunny, Rainy, Stormy and Cloudy (the polled quads) with their big (disbudded) sister Bobette, and mom Petunia.
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04/10/11, 11:39 AM
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I find it easier to sell the bucklings better if they are intact rather than wethered. I try to run my ad early enough so that anyone wanting bucks can put a deposit down before I would have to band them if needed.
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04/10/11, 11:53 AM
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I LOVE that picture of the quads and big sis playing. They don't jump out of that pen???
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04/10/11, 12:01 PM
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Judging just by the pictures, they all look polled. If there will be horns, there will be a little swirl in the hair where the horns will be. Straight means polled. The pictures look straight.
They will still grow bumps if they are polled.
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