Example pairings
A traditional Boer and a solid red Boer: what colors can their kids be?
Updated · How it works and sources
White-bodied kids are expected at 50% to 100%, with solid kids up to 50%, depending on whether the white-bodied parent carries solid. The amount of white and dapple are not predicted.
Head color stays in words because the two published models disagree. In one Swiss and German study, sampled after breeders noticed solid kids, 15% of traditional Boers carried the solid form; US rates are unknown.
These colors assume this line's chocolate is dominant, neither parent carries dominant black or Angora white, and the recorded parentage is right. Parents are entered as horned with no moonspots unless the example says otherwise.
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Body colors to expect
Chances per kid for white-bodied versus solid, under the entered family answers.
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White-bodied (traditional or paint) White-bodied (traditional or paint) 50% (1 in 2) to 100% (1 in 1) Possible in every case
ABGA: No preference is given to any hair color. Standard rev. 2025-07-22. ABGA source
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Other possible colors Colors a parent may hide up to 50% (1 in 2) Depends on hidden genes
- Solid body: up to 50% (1 in 2)
ABGA: No preference is given to any hair color. Standard rev. 2025-07-22. ABGA source
- Solid body: up to 50% (1 in 2)
In one Swiss and German study, sampled after breeders noticed solid kids, 15% of traditional Boers carried the solid form; US rates are unknown
White-bodied versus solid is calculated; head color is described, not given a number.
How dapple is inherited isn't worked out yet.
Paint and dapple amounts are not predicted from copy number.
Markings and traits
Polled · 0%
Scrapie susceptibility: one or both parents not tested; offspring odds are not calculated.
Alpha-S1 casein: one or both parents not tested; offspring odds are not calculated.
Congenital myotonia: one or both parents not tested; offspring odds are not calculated.
Assumptions and sources
- In one Swiss and German study, sampled after breeders noticed solid kids, 15% of traditional Boers carried the solid form; US rates are unknown
- White-bodied versus solid is calculated; head color is described, not given a number.
- How dapple is inherited isn't worked out yet.
- Paint and dapple amounts are not predicted from copy number.
Family answers that can narrow these odds
- Buck: Could this white-bodied goat carry the solid form?
Answer these in the full calculator to see how the map changes.
What this tool covers
- Breed-aware Agouti patterns and brown pigment
- Ranges from unknown copies and deciding questions
- Polled intersex syndrome, tested traits and stated assumptions
Limits
- A color name is not a DNA result.
- A partial answer leaves unmodeled mechanisms uncalculated.
- Illustrations describe looks; they are not evidence of inheritance.
