Meat Goat Breeds – Tips On Choosing The Right Type Of Breed Before You Start Raising Goats
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Nov 2010) blog titled " US National Soccer Team – How Can it Get Better?"
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On my way to dinner at a nearby sushi restaurant the other night, I stopped at a local playground to see if there was anything interesting to photograph. I found that a local community organizer, Darrin Dunn, had raised some contributions to provide uniform-style t-shirts for two competing teams of basketball players in the playground’s court, which has been named "Goat Courts."
Dunn is the CEO of the Earl Manigault Foundation, Inc., and you can reach him by phone at 832-660-1039 if you’d like to offer assistance; he doesn’t have a Website or email address at the moment. The foundation, and the basketball court, are named after the legendary Earl "the Goat" Manigault, who died in 1998 after playing professional basketball in France and Germany. You can learn more about Manigault, the basketball court, and the local tournaments in a July 10, 2009 Black Star News article titled Hope Dreams – Beyond Basketball, which was written by Mitch Ligon, whose chess-playing talents (in the same park) I showed in this Flickr photo.
Anyway, it was an interesting game, with lots of action. I took some 300 shots, and whittled it down to 30 keepers; I’ll upload 10 of them each day, while trying to juggle my other work demands…
Article by Peter Hansen
A lot of people only see goats as being cuddly and cute; this is probably an appropriate description for them most especially if you are trying to raise them as your own pets. You should know though that these previously mentioned descriptions are not appropriate most especially if you are already trying to farm and breed them. When you want to have various meat goat breeds in your own farm, there are various things that you should keep in mind. Some of these are the feeds that you will give them, the place where you will shelter them, planning the appointments that they should have with their veterinarian, buying some tools that will make their lives easier, as well as the supplements that you will provide them in order for them to become healthy. Choosing meat goat breeds can become tricky most definitely if this is your first time; because of this, this article will give you some things you need to remember to have an easier time. But among all the things that have been mentioned, you should know that you will not become successful with your goal if you do not accomplish one thing: choose the specific type of breed that you want your goats to have if you want to start meat goat production.
If you really want to have a goat farm where you will be able to breed various goats, you should remember that not all the goats out there are capable of giving you a really high quality meat. Because of this, you should be very careful when it comes to choosing among all the meat goat breeds that you will encounter in the market. If you are after the breed of goats that are really bred for producing excellent meat, you should go for the Boer goats from South Africa. A lot of people consider them as the perfect breed for producing meat because of various reasons; the first reason is because they easily grow, along with the fact that they also have a really high count of litter; most importantly, many people really love the fact that they are very susceptible when it comes to fighting off the various diseases that are present in their surroundings. Remember that the younger the goat, the tender will the meat that they produce be; on the other hand, if an adult goat will provide you with their meat, these meats usually for with some processed food that are available in the market such as salted, smoked and even cured meat. If on the other hand, you are not that happy with the Boer goats, you can just check out the other meat goat breeds that are available: Myotonic, Kiko, Brush, and Spanish.
With all these information about the types of breeds that you should consider when you want to produce meat from your goats, it would be impossible for you to make a mistake and not become successful with everything that you want to do with all the goats that you have in your farm.
