Baby has funny horns~ growing forward

Cheryl aka JM · #1 02/15/13, 05:31 PM

I'm just not sure what to think of Babies little demon horns. Of course I love her~ I raised her on a bottle last summer so how could I not love her. She come from the neighbors place~ where all of his goats have normal horns. Even her two siblings have normal horns (she was a triplet and nieghbor knows I keep dairy goats so he sent her over here to me) So we have no idea how Baby got her demonic little forward pointing horns.
And opinions?
Should I be worried her horns grow the wrong direction?

CJBegins · #2 02/15/13, 06:42 PM

Those are cute. She is a halloween goat, no costume needed. But isn't she a boer? Those puppies look sharp!

**mygoat** · #3 02/15/13, 06:56 PM

Hmmm, those certainly aren't normal. They aren't thick like normal horns either. You sure nobody tried to disbud her when you weren't looking?

Honestly, it does look like some sort of horn growth issue. Somethin' aint right. She appears healthy so I don't think it's some sort of weird deficiency... Is she growing normal and otherwise healthy? If she's healthy otherwise I wouldn't worry too much - but know that with boers, horns do have a part on the scorecard so selling her kids as breeding stock may or may not be more difficult... hard to say. She could be perfectly good for producing home meat, or 4H show wethers, which in many places have to be disbudded to show anyways.

Goat Servant · #4 02/15/13, 06:59 PM

I agree they are different looking; both the angel & the thiness.

Cheryl aka JM · #5 02/16/13, 09:07 AM

She 7 months old, and looks a little small to me, but I think that just my eye comparing her to the adult goats I moved her with yesterday. She seems to be growing and acting like everybody else goat. Those horns started pointing the wrong way immediately when she was just a couple weeks old you could feel her horns were wrong. Not a clue why though. Guess I'm not too worried about it. I never meant to name her "Baby" it just kind of turned out that way cuz nothing else stuck~ so now I'm thinking of trying out some silly reference to those horns for a name for her. But I kind of suspect she'll always be "Baby!" When she was small and she saw me with the bottle she would scream "MMMAAA!!!!" and I would scream "Baby!!" it was funny then.