Here the term breast is used to describe the pectoral muscles birds use for flight. Skip to content Technology. April 9, Joe Ford. I never saw a goat with 4 teats, so i dont have knowledge about this special feature. I know its a deformation but i think its good having 4 teats. She gave a birth to 1 female kid first time.
Her female kid is also having 4 teats. Others argue that removing extra teats may allow a future owner to use the goat towards American status kids and the genes could enter the ADGA herd books that way.
Very often these extra teats do not interfere with milking but they can. These teats can be removed easily while the kid is young. When we remove these teats we have to be sure to remove them in a front to back direction not side to side so that the scar blends with the normal folds of the udder. One risks taking off the wrong teat when removing supernumerary teats in young stock. Some does have had blind halves when they freshened because someone removed the wrong teat.. Extra teats must be differentiated from bifid teats.
These are also called fused teats or forked teats. These teats always have teat sphincters and orifices. So check teats at intervals as your kids grow, especially before selling or breeding the best goats for milk!
Sometimes I get asked if all of the kids in a litter should go for meat if there is a teat issue in one. Each kid is a unique genetic combination of traits from the sire and dam, so normal kids can be kept. If there is only one abnormal kid, the breeding might even be repeated to find there are no more occurrences. I also put the dam on a good cleansing diet after kidding, focusing on liver and kidney maintenance if we get any congenital defect, just to rule out any possible toxin interference with early kid development.
May all your goat teats be perfect and may there never be a third teat or any other deviation in your herd! Katherine and her husband Jerry continue to be managed by their ever-crafty herd of LaManchas, on their farm with gardens and other livestock, in the Pacific Northwest. She also offers hope through herbal products and wellness consultations for people and their beloved creatures at www.
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