03-09-2013, 05:54 AM
This past fall a cute dwarf Nubian male goat appeared on my farm from parts unknown, and was very taken with my ewes. So taken, in fact, that he actually mounted them - successfully. Yesterday one of my ewes gave birth to twins, but they were obviously by different fathers, because the female was 100% all white sheep but the male was much smaller, has black and brown markings on legs and face, floppy ears and goat-type facial bone structure. Sheep eyes.
Do I call him a geep or a shoat? Geep sounds insulting and doesn't appeal to me, since he is so adorable, and a shoat is a young pig... perhaps a buckram or a rambuck? I assume he will be like a mule and unable to sire young - too bad, since he is so very cute.
Once he is weaned, I wonder if he will be a grazer or a browser?
Have any of you heard of such a pairing before? And if the offspring is viable?
Do I call him a geep or a shoat? Geep sounds insulting and doesn't appeal to me, since he is so adorable, and a shoat is a young pig... perhaps a buckram or a rambuck? I assume he will be like a mule and unable to sire young - too bad, since he is so very cute.
Once he is weaned, I wonder if he will be a grazer or a browser?
Have any of you heard of such a pairing before? And if the offspring is viable?