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<blockquote data-quote="Howdyjabo" data-source="post: 260316" data-attributes="member: 391"><p>Yup</p><p></p><p>If I had acess to them I would try Kinko nannies and a Boer Buck.</p><p>Be careful of buying off show stock-- Around here they are not being breed with commercial production in mind.</p><p></p><p>Both the Boers and what few Kinkos that are around are mostly being bred in "Hobby" environments with inputs being real high.</p><p></p><p>My best were some common nannies that were thrown out in some pasture and left to do or die. They had a decent frame-which is REAL important.</p><p>I crossed them with a smaller stocky Boer. The kids had 70% Boer coloring. I kept replacements(the off colored ones-- why sell them at a loss???) and bred to Boer again(85% colored kids)-- and they did real well too. After 75% Boer nannies production dropped.</p><p> So instead of keeping replacements again-- I found some common good framed doelings(paid half what I sold my colored doelings for) and started again.</p><p></p><p>I haven't found a single type of goat that will mature to breed at one yr old(except Pygmie) on just our fescue pastures. They have to have some feed that first year. </p><p>And I had to get real good at taking out the Bucks and bucklings-- they breed like rabbits to their production detriment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Howdyjabo, post: 260316, member: 391"] Yup If I had acess to them I would try Kinko nannies and a Boer Buck. Be careful of buying off show stock-- Around here they are not being breed with commercial production in mind. Both the Boers and what few Kinkos that are around are mostly being bred in "Hobby" environments with inputs being real high. My best were some common nannies that were thrown out in some pasture and left to do or die. They had a decent frame-which is REAL important. I crossed them with a smaller stocky Boer. The kids had 70% Boer coloring. I kept replacements(the off colored ones-- why sell them at a loss???) and bred to Boer again(85% colored kids)-- and they did real well too. After 75% Boer nannies production dropped. So instead of keeping replacements again-- I found some common good framed doelings(paid half what I sold my colored doelings for) and started again. I haven't found a single type of goat that will mature to breed at one yr old(except Pygmie) on just our fescue pastures. They have to have some feed that first year. And I had to get real good at taking out the Bucks and bucklings-- they breed like rabbits to their production detriment. [/QUOTE]
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