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Hi, one of my goats I am waiting to kid with hopes of getting a replacement dueling as my youngest doe is 8 is starting contractions. I am really excited, though siting staring at her the past few hours hasn't done anything so I am giving her some privacy instead and seeing if that helps things along. I like mixing things up with goats to get a look different than what is seen with any established breed right now, and this goat and her full sister I am also waiting on are the best representations of the look I am going for so far (Spending 7 years away from breeding for keepers as I was in college kinda put a damper on things, but this year they were bread to a promising buck instead of one to specifically try to get kids that don't fit what I was looking for, so I am excited)

This doe, Zara, is red colored with a blaze and white tail tip, blue eyes, mid sized goat with good milk production and minimal spotting. She is heterozygous red (a desired trait) het black, plus het chocolate modifier on black (I don't know if the chocolate helps create red on a cream goat, haven't found any scholarly articles about any link with that yet, really they are confused about what exactly changes a cream goat to a red or even rust colored goat yet, they are talking about 9 theoretical cream modifiers, but for now I consider red close to the mother's color and cream being a more blonde or cream color) she is het for blue eyes, het normal eyes, (Hope is blue eyes) het for paint spots (Hope is present but minimal spotting) and het for white on forehead and tail tip (also desirable) She often has 3 babies and is the bigger around of the two does)
The buck, Tank is from really good mid sized milking lines as well, is black (Unlike horses, black is recessive to red/ cream on goats, I have found several sources of articles plus people with red golden gurney goats confused about black kids to show this) is possibly homozygous for blue eyes (These will be his first kids, so let's see, both his parents had blue eyes) He obviously does not have chocolate, has minimal spotting and white forehead and tail tip plus has long hair (Another desirable trait I want to bring in)

The second doe, Nessie, has the same gene mix as Zara, bred to the same buck, and although is not having contractions last time I checked is due any day too. She often has twins or triplets but is not quite as big around as Zara. Really excited to see what these two have.

Trying to decide if I want to make a game of who wants to try to guess what they will have, though since I have already laid out what I want that kinda screws things. Well, now I will post things and then go stare at the goats a while again. I am just really excited and hope Zara has her babies before work tomorrow!