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Blue eyes in goats, including marbled or partly blue eyes, are described as dominant to the usual brown, so a blue-eyed kid is expected to have at least one blue-eyed parent. No gene has been mapped and there is no DNA test. The Nigerian Dwarf breed standard notes it is the only dairy breed known to have blue eyes occasionally.
How Blue Eyes is inherited isn't settled yet.
Breeder and expert experience: described as dominant, with no published breeding counts. No gene is mapped and there is no DNA test, so tools treat dominance as a stated assumption.
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A goat that is fed well, wormed sensibly, and never culled will usually live into its low-to-mid teens. Washington State University Extension teaches 10 to 15 years as the average for the species, and the captive-longevity record compiled in the AnAge database puts the verified maximum at 20.8 years, held by one female, with a […]
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