Boer goat comes from Africa. Probably, therefore, it easily transfers heat and is unpretentious to the conditions of detention. Rarely sick and loves the leaves of trees. In short, a foreigner.
The chest is broad, the appearance is catchy, the look is melancholic
Even though she is a goat, mountain trails and rocks are alien to her. Its elements are wide plains, overgrown with grass and dense shrubs. She has powerful muscular legs and wide thick hooves, like a bull. She is not graceful, but walks confidently. Extraordinary appearance. Not mischievous, but calm. She is very friendly and is found with cows and sheep. Not cowardly and self-confident. Here it is - Boer goat.
- Appearance
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Special features
- Productivity
- Breeding characteristics
Appearance
Boer goat - from large meat breeds of goats. The weight of an adult animal is 110 - 135 kg. The uterus weighs less 90 - 100 kg. Kids in three months reach 35 kg. The body is broad, muscular. The back is long, curved. The goat has a large head, with a well-defined curved profile and forehead protruding. The horns are slightly curved, of medium length, wide, slightly splayed. Big, long, drooping, wide ears.Thick, muscular legs with large hooves. Short-haired animal.
In purebred Boer Goats, coat color is white and head is dark brown. Crossed with other breeds, the animals have a black, pale yellow skin, sometimes spotted.
Advantages and disadvantages
Benefits:
Adapt to any conditions of detention.
Easily tolerate different climatic conditions.
Have a strong immunity. Rarely sick.
Unpretentious to feed.
They have a friendly, calm character. Compliant.
Negative trait Breeds are what they love to eat fresh shoots and leaves of trees and bushes. As a result, can significantly damage the green space, distort the surrounding landscape.
Special features
Boer goats are among the few meat breeds. During the growing season are kept on pastures. Uterus can give birth to babies at any time of the year. Very nice, caring mothers. Due to the calm friendly nature of this breed, goats can peacefully coexist with other farm animals. Usually they are grazed with cows and sheep.
Productivity
Slaughter meat yield from one animal is 54 - 57 kg. High quality meat. It has a slight smell and taste of veal. Non-greasy In kids it has a neutral taste. Lean is considered dietary. In addition, the fur and skin of the Boer goat are appreciated. Milk productivity is very low, only 2-3 kg per day. All it goes to feed the kids.
Breeding characteristics
Since the breed easily adapts to any, even the most severe, climatic conditions and is quite prolific, it is not difficult to breed it.
The animals are early ripening and capable of breeding as early as five months. To create a herd, you must have at least two goats.
Uterus can produce offspring at any time of the year. Each goat's hoard occurs almost annually. Pregnancy lasts 5 months. At the first lambing, one goat is born to the goat, in the following years - two goats. Milk lamb feeding lasts 3 months. During this period, they grow rapidly and gain weight. At 3 months of age, kids reach enough mass for slaughter.
Despite the ease of breeding Boer Goats in our latitudes, few farmers keep herds of this breed. The reason - an insufficient number of males for breeding purebred breed.After all, to obtain high-quality offspring, even in medium-sized queens, a purebred male is needed.
In Soviet times, despite the high meat productivity, the goats of the Boer breed were not imported.
Breeding of the Boer Goats is put on a grand scale in Africa and the USA. But importing purebred animals from there is quite expensive. The cost of a goat in South Africa is 7 - 8 thousand dollars, in the USA - about 1,5 thousand. To this still need to add the cost of transportation.
You can carry sperm. It costs only 50 dollars. But in his native fatherland there are practically no specialists who could carry out the operation of insemination of queens.
Another option is theoretically possible — cryopreservation (transfer of a live embryo into a goat's uterus). But in practice this task is not feasible. Firstly, again, due to the lack of the necessary specialist who could defrost the brought sample and introduce it into the uterus. Secondly, it is necessary to guess the moment when the goat's organism will be in the necessary phase for the adoption and further development of the embryo.
Most farmers who breed the Boer goats, increase their herds due to interbreeding. For this, the male of the Boer goat and the queen of the Nubian breed are taken.Some farmers, especially experienced ones, after interbreeding, carry out multiple cross-breeding. That is, crossbred descendants are crossed with purebred Boer producers. It should be borne in mind that males can not be from one nest.
