Guide to breeding goats for meat

Breeding goats for meat might be the next measure to take after successfully establishing your goat farm. In the end, continually ordering in fresh batches of animals from the suppliers can become a costly affair later on. As a way to breed meat-producing goats, you should remember a small number of things though. For instance:

1. Most meat producing breeds (e.g. Boer goats, Spanish goats, etc.) typically mate between the months of August and all through March. In order to give you ample time to prepare the does’ nutritional needs and the birthing pen, try to plan exactly when you like the kidding or the birth of the young goats to occur. The common gestation period of these animals lasts 5 months or 150 days. One way of maximizing your meat production is to try breeding the goats at twice during the mating season.

2. The phrase “flushing” is important when considering breeding goats for meat. Flushing, or to be more precise: egg flushing simply means putting the does on a better and highly concentrated diet. This helps make the goat produce a larger litter. Usually, goats produce 1 to 3 kids in one birthing. Nevertheless, if the flushing is done correctly, the does may produce 4 healthy kids. It is in addition during the flushing period that female goats are de-wormed and given vaccines to help keep their health up during the gestation period.

3. An extra footnote when considering breeding goats for meat: if does are geared to reproduce twice during the mating season, it is very likely that the second litter will only produce 1 to 2 kids. Some goat farmers either opt to have their animals mated twice, or select the flushing method instead. Combining both methods has shown to be detrimental in all the efforts for breeding goats for meat. Either the people of the goat herd becomes too broad that the animals become susceptible to disease, or the mother goats’ health is compromised that further birthing for the next few year is almost hopeless.

4. Even with all the science and technology accessible to goat farmers these days, nothing could beat a buck’s (male goat) ability to detect female goats in heat. Investing in one or more buck for your goat farm might be a great idea. Or, invariably you could ask other goat farmers to “lend” you a male goat 2 weeks before your estimated time when most of other does come in heat.

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