Posted by Texasmark1 on August 21, 2016 at 17:46:05 from (184.20.237.101):
In Reply to: Raising goats posted by Wildride47 on August 21, 2016 at 16:57:50:
I tried them when I first "bought the farm"....misnomer. Grin
Couldn't afford beef so settled for the Nubian breed as I thought they were pretty with their droopy ears and udders were huge and well formed.
In short, unless you sell brood stock, the "kids" don't have that much meat for the size of the carcass. and the amount of feed it takes to support mama and papa through one cycle of gestation and Kid rearing ready for the market. They are excellent at "jail breaking". The containment fence has to be good and including electric wire helps. They prefer to eat your flowers and play "run over the mountain" with your car jumping on the hoot, then top, then rear deck. They have no "private part" decency and can embarrass young children and ladies especially the Ram. The old axion about breeding and reproduction and all doesn't apply. Rams are opportunists! Requiring the Nanny to be in heet has nothing to do with it.
If you can't afford to fence in a large area where you can rotate them from pasture to pasture to keep them from eating grass down to the nub where it has poor regrowth, the best thing to do is tether them. That way you can move them around when they eat what's available where they are.
They are climbers and mess on their chow. If you plan on haying them you have to figure out how to keep them from climbing onto it and soiling it.
A lot of Hispanics inhabit this area and their preference seems to be the Boer breed. They do produce well because every time you pass a field of them, most are plump in a motherly way. That's what I know about them.
They are healthy and I never had to consult a vet in the couple of years I raised them.
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