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Buckskin

Buckskin

Gene

A dark cape over the shoulders and neck with lighter sides. The belly and legs help distinguish it from chamoisee, but white patches and age can hide those features.

How Buckskin works

Each copy shows its own effect, so both can be seen together.

Breeder and expert experience. Buckskin is a breeders' name; which allele it is has not been tested. SCIGBA, with Sponenberg, reads this as the San Clemente pattern.

Class
Codominant
Part of

Looks like

A dark cape over the shoulders and neck with lighter sides. The belly and legs help distinguish it from chamoisee, but white patches and age can hide those features.

As they grow

A buckskin's cape can darken over the first months; check again at 6 months.

DNA testing

No commercial test for these Nigerian Dwarf pattern names was found in the reviewed laboratory listings.

Where sources disagree

The leading reading treats buckskin as its own codominant Agouti allele. An alternative calls it tan sides, under which a chamoisee can hide buckskin. Member family records weakly favor that alternative but are clustered and do not settle inheritance. A photo can't settle it.

Sources

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Plan a pairing

Buckskin with a hidden black copy × black: 50% Buckskin kids, under the stated assumptions.

Goats with Buckskin

Showing Buckskin

Animals recorded as showing Buckskin.

Quick facts

Public profiles
3
Herdbook records
3
Guides & articles
28

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Goat Gestation Period: How Long Goats Are Pregnant, With a Kidding Date Chart and Calculator

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Goat Breeding Exposure Records: Keep Date Ranges and Parentage Uncertainty Clear

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How Long Do Goats Live? Goat Lifespan by Sex, Use, and Management

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