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General Appearance:
The ideal is an alert, sound, well-balanced animal, standing foursquare,
possessing the capacity, and breeding ability of a good milking goat, with a
high, proud head carriage and majestic bearing
Head: Short,
with the base of the cheekbone to the highest part of the head equal to the
distance from the nose to the maxillary joint. A pronounced convex nasal
bone. Head carried high. Horned goats are preferably disbudded.
Eyes: Medium
sized, set obliquely and wide apart, almond shaped giving a supercilious
expression.
Ears: Long
and pendulous, set low on the head, parallel to the eyes, wide and open,
longer than the nose when measured against it, little or no ability to lift.
Mouth: The
teeth should meet the hard pad of the upper jaw but a tendency of the jaw to
being overshot would not be penalised provided the teeth were not
permanently visible.
Neck: Long
and fine in the doe. Pronounced masculinity with a dewlap preferred in the
buck. No tassels on either the doe or buck.
Back line:
Strong, may rise slightly in a straight line from behind the wither to the
hips with no sign of weakness.
Forequarters:
Withers high and well-defined, blending firmly into the shoulders, which
merge smoothly into the body. Chest is wide and deep, merging smoothly into
the body. Good heart room and pronounced brisket.
Body: A
strong frame, long, deep and capacious showing dairy wedging. Proportionate
to height, ribs well sprung.
Hindquarters:
Rump, long, broad and strong. May be slightly rounded when viewed from the
rear. A moderate slope acceptable when viewed from the side. The width
between thurls greater than the width between hips. Pin bones wide and
prominent. Tail short. Wry tail permissible but differs from the ideal.
Legs and Feet:
Forelegs are straight and strong showing good bone and held squarely below
the body. The rear legs also showing good bone are set wide with good
escutcheon space without pronounced angulation from the hock to the stifle
giving the appearance of a strong upright rear leg. The feet should be
proportionate to body size, neat and even. Level bearing. There should be no
suggestion of hockiness or weak or long pasterns.
Udder and Teats:
The texture is silky. The udder is attached over a wide area, being held
high and wide at the rear. The front attachment should extend well forward
without a pocket. Even shaped teats, placed well apart, pointing slightly
forward and distinguishable from the udder. The teats should emit a strong
jet flow with one orifice to each teat.
Testicles:
Well-developed, evenly balanced, not divided, carrying two testes.
Rudimentary teats:
Two, set well apart, slightly to the fore and side of the scrotum, of good
size but not over developed.
Height:
Average height, does 80 cm, bucks 90cm.
Coat: Hair
should be short, fine and glossy. Bucks may develop a ruff to the neck.
Colour:
Colour and markings are immaterial.
Disqualifying
Faults: Wry face, grossly overshot or undershot jaw, parrot mouth. A
double or super-nummary teat in does and bucks, double or more orifices in
teats of both does and bucks. Monorchid or cryptorchid males. Intersex. Pink
skin. Full Swiss markings.
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