American Fainting Goat Organization

THIS COLOR CHART HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER TO GIVE THE BREEDER INFORMATION ABOUT THE DIDFFERENT COLORS, AND PATTERNS ,THAT MAY BE FOUND IN THE FAINTING GOAT BREED. A BIG THANKS TO KW FARMS FOR SHARING SO MANY OF THEIR PICTURES WITH US. ALTHOUGH KW FARMS IS A NIGERAIN DWARF GOAT FARM, MANY  OF THE SAME COLORS FOUND IN NIGERIANS CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN THE FAINTING GOATS. ,WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK ALL THE AFGO MEMBERS THAT HAVE SHARED PICTURES TO HELP  WITH THIS PROJECT TOO!

COLORS

SOLID WHITE

7F RANCH SNOWBALL IS SOLID WHITE!

PICTURE BY KW FARMS  WHITE

BLACK

EVIE  IS  BLACK                                                                                                                                               

This is Tx Free Falling Farm Diesel. he is black with a white poll

and a few random white marks. His marks make a happy face!

TITAN FARMS BETTY IS BLACK WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF WHITE.

SHE HAS LOTS OF SKIRTING ON THE BACK AND SOME ON THE FRONT.

IF YOU LOOK CLOSE YOU WILL SEE SOME MAHOGANY TINT AS WELL JUST LIKE

HER DAD HAS. NO IT IS NOT COPPER DEFICIENCY.

CHOCOLATE

CAPONE IS CHOCOLATE AND WHITE

BLUES

Blue is a diluted Black.

It often happens when a blue is bred to a black.

Blue also happens from breeding 2 blues together.

PLAYFUL ACRES HONEY BUN IS LIGHT BLUE

DEALER IS A MEDIUM BLUE

LICKSKILLET ACRES IS A DARK BLUE

RED

Fern Hill Mark IS A DARK RED

7F Ranch Tumbles is a  medium red

It is almost impossible to tell the difference between

medium to light red and a dark gold.(seen below)

GOLD

PICTURE BY KW FARMS DARK GOLD

PLAYFUL ACRE BELLA IS MEDIUM GOLD

PICTURE BY KW FARMS LIGHT GOLD

PATTERNS

CHAMOISEE (BLACK BELLY) OR (BROWN WITH BLK POINTS)

Chamoisee can be described as usually being tan or brown in color with solid black legs, underbelly and a stripe down the back. This, like the buckskin pattern, is pretty common in the fainting goat breed and also can come is a few different shades.

PICTURE OF CHAMOISEE BY KW FARMS

TITAN FARMS HOPE IS A CHAMOISEE

BUCKSKINS

The buckskin pattern has usually black that covers the head, neck, and shoulders in a cape effect with black on the topside of the tail, with the remainder of the body being a lighter color (brown/tan/creme/etc.) and the face and legs sporting coordinating stripes. Buckskin is a very common pattern in Nigerians and is easily passed on. There are several different shades of buckskin, but the pattern remains the same.

BAYSHORE’S’ SOMMERSAULT IS A DARK BUCKSKIN

SHE IS ALSO AN EXTREME COATED GIRL

 

MEDIUM BUCKSKIN BY KW FARMS

RED BUCKSKIN BY KW FARMS

LIGHT BUCKSKIN BY KW FARMS’

SCHWARTZAL

Coat is mostly white with dark markings usually on the head and sometimes the legs. Body can be lightly spotted

 

/Well’s Phantom sports  a  Schwartzal pattern

 

Bonnie is also showing us her Schwartzel pattern

BELTED OR BANDED

The goat will have a white band going completely around their body.

Sometimes it is narrow and other times it is quite wide. 

ECLISPE IS BELTED  (she is also a moonspotted doe.)

TRI-COLORED

A tri-colored is simply 3 colors.

Main 3 colors found are : black,brown and white.

TRI-COLORED and Blue eyes. She is also a white polled.

 

TWIX IS A TRI-COLORED WITH BLUE EYES

ELMO IS A TRI-COLORED WITH BLUE EYES

FLOWERY PATTERN

This pattern has small whiter flecks mainly found on the

barrel. If it is a strong pattern they may almost appear Roan

VIRGINIA IS A FLOWERY PATTERN

ROANS 

Roan is a mixture of white hairs found in any color base coat.

7F RANCH NAOMI IS A RED ROAN

7 Fainting Acres blue Storm Red Roan

GOULET PATTERN

This pattern has white ears, tail, and the lower face is usally white.

The goat normally hs colored eye patches.

NO PICTURE AVAILABLE

 PEACOCK

 Cou Blanc (coo blanc): Literally meaning “white neck”. A cou blanc will have white front quarters and black hind quarters with black or gray markings on the head.
Cou Clair (coo clair): Literally meaning “clear neck.” A cou clair will have tan, saffron, off white, or shading to tray front quarters, with black hind quarters.

PICTURES BY KW FARMS

  

SWISS MARKINGS

A swiss marked goatwill have a mostly black or chocolate body with solid white, creme, or light tan legs,  hind end, under the tail, on the ears, on the tip of the muzzle, and then matching stripes down the face to the muzzle; Some will also have a dot of white/creme on the side of each cheek. There are two colors to this pattern. You can have the more common black or the more unusual chocolate swiss marked.

 

SWISS MARKINGS BY KW FARMS

WHITE POLLED

 White Polled is referring to the white, somewhat round spot on top of the head or on the poll of the goat

 WHITE POLLED PICTURES BY KW FARMS

RANDOM MARKINGS

Just as the name suggest. Markings are scattered

with no pattern.

PLAYFUL ACRES CUPCAKE

LOLLIPOP

TICKING

Ticking resembles pillow ticking. They are dark flecks.

 

BETH HAS TICKING

Close up of Beth’s Ticking

LICKSKILLET TINY DANCER HAS LOTS OF TICKING AND IS A RED ROAN

WATTLES

 Wattles are a dominant hair-covered appendages. Seen in even some of the old Tn lines!! Not just a dairy trait.

 PICTURES OF WATTLES FURNISHED BY KW FARMS. SOME CALL THEM GOAT JEWERLY!

 

 

 

FROSTED

 

KARISMA HAS FROSTED EARS AND A FROSTED NOSE

SHE IS A NIGERIAN.