Ears on Swiss Breeds ** Picture added!! :) **

Conformation question here...

I have a doeling who's ears are just wierd. I'll try to take some pictures to illustrate later. They aren't airplane ears or anything and she is a French Alpine. They just somehow tilt down a little bit.... although they are upright they aren't like my other goats ears.

bugs me everytime I look at her. Just wondering if its a big deal, or if it even matters. :blush

Thanks!

 

Re: Ears on Swiss Breeds

Yeah lol you guys are supposed to have x ray vision... hehe... sorry about that. I just tend to think of things whilst i'm at work!

I went out and took about a dozen pictures but since a) no one to hold and b) I get mobbed every time i go in I only got one picture that shows what I mean about her ears.

Okay dokey... am i imagining something or is something very odd about her ears? The other ear looks exactly like the one in the picture

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Yeah i do know what you mean!! but this doe has no soft spot with me... maybe one reason why her ears annoy me so much hehe. I've had others that it wouldn't matter a bit... just love them.

I loved her mother to bits but her mothers personality she did not get!

She's kept because I need to see her udder. Ears aside she should make a very good little milker when she freshens.

 

Yiipes that was dark - looked ok on my computer at home!! Thanks so much. I just got this computer a month or so ago and it drives me NUTS - its a Mac and I'm used to PC, not to mention the programs are different. Ah well...

Are they airplane ears? I had a Nubian cross who had them but they were level... didn't turn up or face forwards like hers do.

 

Rats. Well she can prick them forward, but that's about it, they don't really go up much higher than that picture. They are set just a bit higher as her face is tilted in the pic, but there is something very definately not right about her ears. Compared to all my others they are really low.

so.... why are they like this?? dam and sire both have normal ears. she's french so its not like nubian blood got in there somehow lol. Is this just a genetic quirk?

 

Oh wow - this is good to know. I thought her ears were wierd when she was born but just hoped it was something she'd grow out of. Never even crossed my mind to splint them. So you've had this happen, splinted them and they straightened normally?

 

Awesome! Thanks so much. Once I had a buckling born with floppy ears - like nubian floppy ears. But they straightened out on their own.

I will definately keep an eye out for this with the next kid batch. Honestly never thought of splinting.

Do you notice certain lines that you always have to splint or is it a one off random thing?

 

Thanks a bunch you guys! This one isn't just lazy ... her ears are actually set differently. I'm definately going to try splinting if I get another kid with the same deal this spring.

I really appreciate it!