Baby goats 2015 updated: DONE! 44 baby goats from Mar15-31.

[CZroe]

I'm actually very curious about this. Especially if it is unique to the myotonic goats or certain heavily-selected varieties.

This is similar to what we investigate in the lab. Though, there really aren't any "goats" that are speciated, no? (any breed can cross with any other breed and produce fertile males and females, right?)

Nature skews toward more males in times of plenty:
http://youtu.be/3IaYhG11ckA

Feed yer goats, Pizza!

 

[Phoenix86]

Nature skews toward more males in times of plenty:
http://youtu.be/3IaYhG11ckA

Feed yer goats, Pizza!

So basically, being raised in a lab/farm is similar to famine/war due to the stress levels.

 

[JEDI]

So basically, being raised in a lab/farm is similar to famine/war due to the stress levels.

where men are men and goats are scared

 

[CZroe]

So basically, being raised in a lab/farm is similar to famine/war due to the stress levels.

Probably has a lot to do with only one buck being allowed to reproduce per season.

 

[Phoenix86]

Probably has a lot to do with only one buck being allowed to reproduce per season.

I'm sure there's a dozen different stresses that could cause it, but this isn't one I thought of initially.

 

[zinfamous]

Nature skews toward more males in times of plenty:
http://youtu.be/3IaYhG11ckA

doesn't work that way with our particular model systems. It does with others, however--certain fish, I believe...where in some species, individuals will actually switch sexes (talking biologically fertile, here)

Nothing to do with vertebrates, but if you want to learn something weird today:

wolbachia

We sequence and work on some creatures, also some vertebrates, with weird sex chromosomes and systems--like birds and reptiles (males are homogametic and females are heterogametic), and beasts with multiple, less, degenerate chromosomes and such.