Inherited or Congenital Conditions
A possibly inherited absence of hair at birth has been reported in a buck kid and his sire (breed unspecified; Kislovsky 1937). The sire developed a nearly normal fleece as it grew older, but the kid died young.
Neither histology nor additional mating was performed.“Sticky kid syndrome” is a congenital disease reported in purebred Golden Guernsey goats, and may be inherited as a recessive character (Matthews 2016). At birth the kids have a sticky and matted coat that does not dry normally. The coat remains harsh and sticky in older goats (Jackson 1986).
Kids, unlike lambs, do not appear to develop congenital changes in the hair coat when exposed in utero to border disease virus (Orr and Barlow 1978).
Wattle cysts, which are located subcutaneously in the cervical region, are discussed in Chapter 3.