Kinder Goats

MARKINGS: Any colors, any markings are acceptable.

HEAD: Strong, clean-cut, balanced, with deep jaw and wide muzzle and nostrils. Straight or dished face. Ears are long and wide, resting below horizontal and extending to the end of the muzzle or beyond when held flat against the jaw line. Genetically horned; disbudding and dehorning recommended. (NOTE: in order to show at sanctioned shows, animals must be disbudded or dehorned). Large eyes, widely set, bright and animated.

SHOULDER: Muscular, well attached at withers and set smoothly on the chest wall. Point of shoulder behind brisket extension.

CROPS: Full, well muscled, not fatty.

BACK: Strong, laterally straight, smooth transposition from withers, blending smoothly at hips into rump.

CHINE: Level and straight.

LOIN: Wide, level and having moderate fleshing over short ribs.

RUMP: Moderate slope from hips to pins and otherwise wide level from thurl to thurl. Pin bones should be moderately wide, set level with the tail head and have moderate fleshing.

LEGS: Moderately heavy boned but not course. Strong, sturdy, straight, wide apart, providing ample height for udder clearance. Pasterns medium length. Strong and springy with proper slope. Rear legs when viewed from behind set wide apart and straight; when viewed from the side, well angulated from thurl to hock. Hock cleanly molded, straight from hock to pastern.

FEET: Short, straight, with deep heel and level sole. Toes symmetrical and tight, not curled or splayed.

DAIRY/MEAT CHARACTER

NECK: Moderate length, strong and muscular but not fat, smoothly blended to shoulder and brisket.

WITHERS: Wedge shaped, slightly above and blending smoothly into the shoulder blade. Muscular but not fat, should be slightly higher than hips

RIBS: Long, flat, and wide apart, well sprung and deep.

FLANK: Moderately deep and arched, with some increase in depth of flank over depth at heart girth.

THIGHS: Muscular, but with some incurving when viewed from the side and rear; set apart and long with somewhat wide incurving escutcheon providing ample room for the udder.

SKIN: Soft, fine textured, and pliable.

BODY CAPACITY

Relatively large in proportion to the size of the animal, providing ample lung, digestive, and reproductive capacity, as well as strength, vigor, and stamina. Greater attention to depth and spring of rib than to body length.

CHEST: Deep and wide, moderate angularity.

BARREL: Deep and strongly supported by ribs that are wide apart and well sprung; depth and width increasing toward the rear of the barrel.

HEART GIRTH: Deep, resulting from long, well sprung fore ribs, wide chest floor, full at the point of elbow.

BRISKET: Prominent, extending beyond the point of shoulder when viewed from the side.

MAMMARY SYSTEM

FORE UDDER: Extended well forward, widely and tightly attached.

REAR UDDER: Highly, widely, and tightly attached.

MEDIAL SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT: Strong and dividing neatly into a wide, quite level udder floor with about 1/2″ deep cleft.

CAPACITY AND SHAPE: Proportionately large capacity with uniform halves and soft texture adding to capacity.

TEATS: Medium size, easy to milk, cyndrilical, uniform, plumb from rear view, pointing slightly forward from the side view. any teat abnormality denotes a “cull” and is unacceptable.

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: (BUCKS)

TESTICLES: Two, evenly and fully descended, of equal size, healthy and firm. The scrotal sac is to be soft and pliable, with moderate to tight attachment.

TEATS: Two non-functional, well shaped and adequately spaced. Any teat abnormality denotes a “cull” and is unacceptable.

Photos  show generations of Kinders. See how the breed has progressed in the last 20 years.

1st Generation

This is Zederkamm’s Napoleon

a first Generation Buck

Visit Kinderzeds Udder Photos Post for a lovely 1st generation Doe

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2nd Generation

Deseray from Bramble Patch Kinders

She is a 2nd Generation Doe

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Zederkamm’s Wyatt

2nd Generation Buck

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3rd Generation

Xander the Great from Zederkamm R&S

Xander is a 3rd Generation Buck

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This Is Vanda

She is a 3rd Generation Doe from the Hogenson’s

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4th Generation

Sweet Tulip from Still Meadow-

She’s a 4th Generation Doe

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Mojave from the Hogenson’s

He’s a 4th Generation 6 Month old Kinder Buckling

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5th Generation

This is Vigaro, from Laudo Deum Farm

He’s a very handsome 5th Generation Buck.

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This is Intrigue from Bramble Patch Kinders

Intrigue is a 5th Generation Doe

Here she is as a Doeling

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This splashy little guy is Comet

He’s a 5 month old 5th Generation Kinder Buckling

and belongs to Deb Ezzati in Oregon

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