GRASS-FED NIGERIAN-NUBIAN-SAANEN-SPANISH-BOER GOATS
The Boer Goat
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The Boer Goat, as a South African land race, has been phenomenally successful as a registered small stock breed. Thanks to dedicated producers here in its home country who have rigorously applied selective breeding practices over almost a century, the Boer Goat is now found in almost every country across the world. It is here in South Africa where the very best genetics in the world are sourced and where breed standards are determined. Characteristics
1.Its meat and hide quality 2.Its hardiness and adaptability
3.Its resistance to disease
4.Its fertility and kidding percentage
5.Its abundance of milk
6.Its longevity
7.Its excellent grazing habits
KALAHARI RED GOAT
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The Kalahari Red goat is a red, medium- to large-framed lob-eared meat goat. It has a fine head, round horns bent backwards, and a loose, supple skin with folds (prominent in rams).
The ewe must be feminine, wedging slightly to the front. The ram is heavier in the head, neck and forequarters.
The ideal is a brown goat with colour shadings that range from light brown to dark brown. It has a well-pigmented, smooth, short hair coat.
Production norms
Age at first breeding: six months;
100-day weaning weight of ram kids: 25kg;
100-day weaning weight of ewe kids: 21kg;
Mature weight ewes: 75kg. The meat is tender, tasty and low fat at a young age. The quality of the skin is excellent, a value-added trait.
Nigerian Dwarf Goat
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The Nigerian Dwarf is an American breed of dwarf goat. Like the American Pygmy Goat, it derives from the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa
The Nigerian Dwarf is small but well-proportioned; its conformation resembles that of larger dairy goats. It may be horned or naturally hornless.The coat is fine and fairly short, and may be of any color, or multicolored
common colors are gold, chocolate and black, frequently with white markings. The facial profile may be concave or straight; the ears are upright, the average weight is approximately 35 kg (75 lb), while maximum height is about 60 cm (24 in) for males and slightly less for females. stock bred for dairy performance may be rather larger than show or companion animals. It is a precocious breed – young stock may be bred from an early age: males from about three months, females from seven or eight months.The gestation period is in the range 145–153 days;he twinning rate is high, and triplet and quadruplet births are not uncommon. Life expectancy is from 8–12 years
Saanen Goat
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The Saanen is a Swiss breed of domestic goat. It takes its name from the Saanental in the Bernese Oberland, in the southern part of the Canton of Bern, in western Switzerland. It is a highly productive dairy goat and is distributed in more than eighty countries worldwide
The Saanen is the most productive milk goat of Switzerland,which has the most productive milking goats in the world.Average milk yield is 838 kg in a lactation of 264 days.The milk should have a minimum of 3.2% fat and 2.7% protein. Because of its productivity, the Saanen has been exported all over the world, and has given rise to many local sub-breeds, often through cross-breeding with local goats. Among these local variants are the Banat White in Romania, the British Saanen, the French Saanen, the Israeli Saanen, the Russian White, the Weiße Deutsche Edelziege [de] in Germany, and the Yugoslav Saanen.
A black variant, the Sable Saanen, was recognised as a breed in New Zealand in the 1980s.
Dorper Sheeps
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Our flock of Dorper sheep is based at our own Acorn Ranch in the beautiful El Paso, County Fields. Our ewes graze in the oak savannah year-round, lambing in the winter and weaning in the spring. The weaned lambs travel to Front Porch Farm for the summer months where they fatten on irrigated pasture and cover crop, adding fertility to our crop rotations, We chose Dorpers due to their superior meat quality, adaptability to climactic extremes, and their shedding abilities. Dorpers are a hair breed, which means that they produce a wool/hair blend that sheds in the late spring, eliminating the need to shear. Another benefit of the hair breeds is that they produce less lanolin than wool breeds. Lanolin is an oil secreted by wool-bearing animals to protect their wool, which can give the meat a "lamby" flavor. You will find that the meat from Dorper lambs has a very clean taste that is mild and delicious.
We sell lamb exclusively through our Lamb Share program. We also have breeding stock available at certain times of the year.