Recent content by Amelia

This is the only other shot I have of her right now but I will try to get others, newer ones.

I wish I had more, I haven't been on the farm since she was born so I don't have any decent pics but I can ask for some better ones, for sure. I want ones, personally that show her differences more clearly. Like her sheep nose. 😊

She is the one on the right in the brown wooly sweater. Her literal muzzle looked like a sheep... That's not dirt... And it's more shovel shaped and less rounded t Have you seen a Katahdin?

Actually, her tail, which again my Mom has been raising purebred animals for 30 years so she is very aware of how to identify the correct features; Lammie's goat tail can't curl up or raise like her mother's or brother's or goat sire, but works like the sheep sire... She carries is and uses it...

Thank you for all the links! I have not had much luck finding a test that will work for her and I have been talking to some labs but I will take a look at the ones posted here! Thank you!

I am personally wondering if she is technically a Chimera since she was born with a brother who shows no sheep features. Does anyone here have any parentage testing services that they have used and would recommend?

She wouldn't typically be meat but since she's not a purebred it's not like she can be sold as a purebred for anything and she has the temperament of a sheep so she's not much of a pet either. Thank you for the advice on the testing! The only testing I could find started at 11000.

In fairness she is a 'goat', she was born to a Saanen goat, but we don't really have $13000 to test her. Would then someone know of any scientific research being done on sheep-like creatures being born to pure bread goats? Right now she is set to be sent off for meat in two months with the ram...

Right? We didn't think anything could come of the pair even if they did mate, it was not encouraged though. We're not too sure of her needs and outcome; any advice anyone?

Hello! My Mom has been raising goats and sheep for almost 30 years, in the same fields but they tend to do their own things. Nothing like this has happened before, here. Pure bred Kathadin sheep and pure bred Nubians and Saanens tend to have different interests and they never mingled much before...