Boer goat

The Boer goat, a meat goat breed is a breed of domestic goat that originated in South Africa and is bred for meat production in particular. It originates from the Hottentottenziege, which in turn is a derivative of the Nubian goat. In the breed goats from Europe and India had been crossed. A South African Breeders' Association has existed since 1959. Since 1977, this breed also in Germany.

In the Boer goat is a great, compact goat that is predominantly white and has a strong head with Roman nose and chin-length hanging ears. However, the head color, in the Bure between black and brown, rust - brown, caramel, white and vary colorful. All kinds of drawings (eg wide blazes, small blazes, stars, spots and sunglasses) can occur. A good goat has at most two teats on each side of the udder. Because of their low milk yield it is not milked. The body weight of castrated goats can be up to 140 kg. The lambs gain weight per day 140-250 g after 100 days, they can use it to a live weight of up to 24 kg. achieve. The breed is also very fruitful: three lambings in two years, with an average of two lambs are born, are possible.

The Boer goat kids will quickly tame. Often the female lambs are dehorned in the first week to prevent injuries by the horns in group conversations, in which it occasionally comes to rank fights. Otherwise, it may, in pregnant goats, lead to severe consequences for the lambs. The special feature of the Boer goat is to have a tasty, tender meat, which lacks the typical goat smell.

Landscape maintenance

Your off-road capability and the fact that the kitzführende goat must not be milked them ideal for use in the landscape maintenance to get the bush encroachment in extensively managed pastures in the handle. As a typical foliage eater she is in the position (standing partly on its hind legs ) shrubs getting wound up to a height of 1.80 m or Schwenden the regrowth after clearing.