Crossbred goats?

nchobbyfarm · #1 01/02/12, 09:26 PM

What are everyones thoughts on a crossbred doe? I have found a 2 1/2 year old doe that is 3/4 nubian and 1/4 saanen. She is broke to a milking stand. She was milked only a couple of times after her first kid because another goat stepped on her teet and was then dried out to let it heal. She was bred to a pure nubian last month. She is $100 less than a pure bred 3 year old nubian bred to the same billy. I am trying to decide on which one for my first dairy goat. I have had boers for 7 years. Any advice?

ShyAnne · #2 01/02/12, 09:55 PM

If your wanting her just for Milk, all is well. But if your wanting to be able to reg & sell her kids a FB registered doe is worth the extra 100.00.

**mygoat** · #3 01/02/12, 10:07 PM

Crosses in ADGA can be registered as Experimentals. IMO it's all about production, conformation etc. I don't think the registration papers makes the animal, and so I price my animals reasonably for their quality and if someone wants them without papers, they pay the same danged price.

In most people's eyes though, people will pay more and have more demand for registered kids on average.

If you're planning on crossing her to your boer buck for 50% registered boer kids, it doesn't much matter who you get. If you plan on starting into dairy goats, I'd get the registered doe simply because she is automatically in higher market demand (and so will her kids be, when bred to a registered buck) than the unregistered one.

houndlover · #4 01/02/12, 10:49 PM

My best milkers are crossbreds - I have lamanchas, alpines, and oberhaslis. The crosses continuously outperform their purebred dams and half siblings, in the ring and on the milkstand. Hybrid vigor. The wether kids grow faster than the purebreds too.

prairiedog · #5 01/03/12, 01:40 PM

Did her teat get stepped on because it hangs so low? Check the udder attachments for long term usefulness.

nchobbyfarm · #6 01/03/12, 09:12 PM

Sounds like I may should try the "experimental" doe as the owner calls her. Who knows, I may end up with both if I can convince my wife.

I am unsure how or why the teet was stepped on. I will try to question the details as thoroughly as possible.

Thanks for the input.

Alice In TX/MO · #7 01/03/12, 09:49 PM

Is that half of her udder productive or was it ruined in the accident?

Does he have the testing papers to document that she is free of CAE?

Have you checked her and the other goats on the farm for CL lumps?

Pony · #8 01/03/12, 10:15 PM

I have two Snubians (half Saanen, half Nubian), and I'm really looking forward to seeing how well they produce. Any doelings they kid will be registrable with the ADGA b/c the sire is a purebred Nubian.

Pony · #9 01/03/12, 10:16 PM

Oh, if you do get this doe, be sure to get a service memo for her breeding to the purebred buck so you can register any doelings.

nchobbyfarm · #10 01/03/12, 10:49 PM

Alice- It is completely healed. They were tested March 2011. I don't know what CL lumps are.

Pony- Either would come with a certificate of breeding is the term the owner used.

Thanks.

Hollowdweller · #11 01/04/12, 10:10 AM

A lot of the now famous Americans of various breeds come from crossbred goats originally.

Each breed has it's strengths and weaknesses sometimes when you cross them and then grade back up to American you can retain the desirable aspects of the breed you are not grading back up to.

The first cross will usually be the best milker after that it's up to your to study your pedigrees and maintain that in subsequent generations.