Example pairings
Can two gold goats have a black kid?
Updated · How it works and sources
Yes, if both gold parents hide black. Gold can hide another pattern or black, so a pair of gold goats can have a kid whose coat shows a color neither parent shows.
Without family answers, gold is 75% to 100% and the hidden colors together are up to 25%. If both hide black and neither carries chocolate, a solid black kid has exactly a 25% chance. The linked case below enters those known copies; the main map keeps them unknown.
See two gold parents hiding black, with no chocolate copies
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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Colors to expect
Chances per kid, assuming this line's chocolate is dominant · change
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Gold 75% (3 in 4) to 100% (1 in 1) Possible in every case
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Other possible colors Colors a parent may hide up to 25% (1 in 4) Depends on hidden genes
- Black: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Buckskin chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Buckskin Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chamoisee Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
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- Chocolate: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate buckskin chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate buckskin Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate chamoisee Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
Color illustration shown with natural horns. Horn status is entered separately.
Another reading
Under the alternative tan-sides reading of breeders' buckskin, a chamoisee can hide buckskin. Neither reading has been DNA established for Nigerian Dwarfs.
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Gold 75% (3 in 4) to 100% (1 in 1) Possible in every case
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Other possible colors Colors a parent may hide up to 25% (1 in 4) Depends on hidden genes
- Black: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Buckskin Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chamoisee Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate: up to 25% (1 in 4)
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- Chocolate buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate buckskin Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate chamoisee Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate cou clair Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Chocolate Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair buckskin: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair chamoisee: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Cou clair Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
- Swiss: up to 25% (1 in 4)
Color illustration shown with natural horns. Horn status is entered separately.
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
- A gold can carry chocolate without showing it; where a line's chocolate is recessive it can hide in black goats.
- No dominant black or Angora-type white is included in this lens.
- Sponenberg notes dominant black may occur in some African breeds; if so, a black relative may not mean 'hides black'.
Family answers that can narrow these odds
- Buck: Could this goat hide black?
- Doe: Could this goat hide black?
- Buck: Could this goat hide buckskin?
- Doe: Could this goat hide buckskin?
- Buck: Could this goat hide chamoisee?
- Doe: Could this goat hide chamoisee?
- Buck: Could this goat hide Swiss?
- Doe: Could this goat hide Swiss?
- Buck: Could this goat hide cou clair or cou blanc?
- Doe: Could this goat hide cou clair or cou blanc?
- Buck: Does this goat have two copies of this line's chocolate form?
- Doe: Does this goat have two copies of this line's chocolate 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.
