What are your goals with them?
thinking about geting into meat goat's
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Watching this thread closely for all the tips 
- we are planning on doing the same. In our case commercial stock for the meat market. Boers are king around here. Husband talking to a friend that works at the livestock auction and he said they were getting $5 a lb at the last auction!! I need to be writing the prices down. You would think this time of year would be cheaper - people running out of hay and selling but it's higher right now than it was 2 months ago.
Our problem is we already have our babies that are pygmy, nigerian and alpine/toggenburg. I could sell a few of them but I don't know if hubby could be convinced to sell some of the big girls. If we weren't older (62 and 69) we'd have time for them to age out but I think we will age out before they do
- we are planning on doing the same. In our case commercial stock for the meat market. Boers are king around here. Husband talking to a friend that works at the livestock auction and he said they were getting $5 a lb at the last auction!! I need to be writing the prices down. You would think this time of year would be cheaper - people running out of hay and selling but it's higher right now than it was 2 months ago.Our problem is we already have our babies that are pygmy, nigerian and alpine/toggenburg. I could sell a few of them but I don't know if hubby could be convinced to sell some of the big girls. If we weren't older (62 and 69) we'd have time for them to age out but I think we will age out before they do
I raise percentage and pure blood boers. But lately I am going towards the Spanish and Kiko breeds for their hardiness and worm resistance. I’m not sure about where you are, but here you have to be really careful about buying boers because they have been over-bred. That’s mostly why I’m moving to other breeds, because boers are so unreliable here when it comes to healthy genetics.
I would suggest starting with a pure blood boer buck and some Kiko, Spanish, or boer mix does. That way if you end up loving boers you can buy more does, or if you decide that you don’t like them all you have to do is find a new buck instead of selling a bunch of does. Just my thoughts
I would suggest starting with a pure blood boer buck and some Kiko, Spanish, or boer mix does. That way if you end up loving boers you can buy more does, or if you decide that you don’t like them all you have to do is find a new buck instead of selling a bunch of does. Just my thoughts
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