jrs11
Chillin' with the herd
Hello! Brand new here, and fairly new to goats in general. So I'm attempting to start breeding ADGA registered Nubians. I currently have a few does and a buck. I just purchased what is supposed to be an 8 month old ADGA registerable Nubian doeling. She seemed small when I bought her, but she was crouched down in a crate so I didn't think much of it. Got home and compared her to my others and realized she's TINY. Way too small to breed yet. Wrote it off as, well, maybe she's just a slow grower...until I found her breeders Facebook page, and a post about this doeling needing to be DNA tested because her dam jumped out of the breeding pen. The breeder mostly has Nigerian Dwarves, and just a couple Nubians. This doeling is only about 50-55 lbs at 8 months. Putting two and two together, I'm worried that I actually just bought a Nubian/ND cross, which I absolutely don't want. So..has anyone had a purebred Nubian this small at 8 months or did I just get taken for a ride?