Goat date
We had our first goat date
today.
His name was Monte Cristo,
and it only took a minute of small talk before he got down to business.
Artemesia rode nicely in the
backseat of our car with zero accidents.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Sheila --- Monte's owner was wondering that too. I guess it's time to making guesses!
Artemesia's father actually looked a lot like Monte, which suggests to me that black is dominant but that she's heterozygous for the coloration. Based on that, you'd expect a 75% chance of black babies and a 25% chance of cream babies. Of course, goat genetics are likely to be a bit more complicated than that simple analysis suggests.
(And maybe you didn't really want a mathematical answer.
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