1. Meat Goat Breeds
Part 2
Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
NC STATE UNIVERSITY

2. Crossbred Boer kids (NCSU, 1995)

3. Crossbred does with horn shape typical of “Spanish” goats
Does from NCSU breeding herd. Three of these does have horns typical of Spanish goats
Crossbred does with horn shape typical of “Spanish” goats

4. Purebred and crossbred does from the NCSU breeding herd in 2004

5. “Spanish”-Boer crossbred buck (700 head herd in Southern Georgia).

6. Muscular Boer buck: large space between front legs for lungs and heart, and good set of hams in the back-end.

7. Boer bucks: Lucas Burger’s farm, South Africa

8. Savanna goat herd: picture taken in South Africa July 2004
According to South African scientists, Savanna are white Boer goats selected over time for absence of color

9. Boer goats in South Africa
Strikingly different environments
Boer in South Africa live in an dry environment drastically different from that of North Carolina (hot and humid). Therefore, Boer goats did not have to develop resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes, the biggest health problem we encounter in Boer goats in the hot and humid southeast US
Boer goats imported to humid southeast US

10. Production Traits Adaptability Reproductive rate Growth rate
affects profitability of enterprise
Reproductive rate
single most important factor
conception rate, kidding rate
Growth rate
Pre-weaning, post-weaning
Carcass characteristics
dressing percent (~45 to 48%), distribution of muscle, lean to fat to bone ratio

11. “Resistant” Breeds Myotonic Kiko Spanish
Some breeds are more resistant than the Boer as far as gastrointestinal nematodes are concerned due to natural selection
Spanish