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The meat is not gamey and is very tender. Highest protein content of any red meat, low cholesterol, the outside layer of fat is good tasting, the meat is very tender if not over cooked. To me goat tastes better than venison, elk, bison, or beef. The goat meat people claim requires acquired taste is the buck meat from animals over six months when sexually  mature and becomes rank. I have butchered doe and whether over four years old and the meat was still tender and never gamey. Bucks six months or younger are equally good, the meat is very red, not white like veal....they are eating solid food almost immediately so not on milk only diet.

Deworming done three or four times a year with injected ivermectin keeps them parasite free, including nose worms and blood worms. 

They are easy to keep contained as long as you remember any fence which will not hold water will not hold a goat.Lol

But hot wire on top of five foot fence usually works for Boer. They are not as bad about jumping like the alpine are.

They will browse on stuff nothing else will eat, like a Brahman. 

Their size makes them easy to butcher, and they (Boer) have high yield for size. Plus you can milk the Boer if you like goat milk. Goat milk yogurt is better than ice cream and I love goat cheese.

Joan, after reading your last post, i realize why i was born and raised in the city.

Joanro, you rock, girl!!!!

I recently had fresh goat milk and was so pleasantly surprised at how lovely and refreshing it was. 

 

Duke I second your post. It almost seems like today trainers want the dog to be born trained  and performing and if  it is not, then  according to such trainers such dog  has thin nerves, too much of this  or not enough what ever or  hole in his genetic makeup...                                                                                                                                                         There is a difference in releasing a dog into scenario to see if it is going succeed or fail and actually training the dog to do what we want him to do. Releasing is not training though. When you train dog with problem then some trainers say that that is training of a faulty dog through a problem and that such dogs are not good. The fact is that all training is training dogs through problems the question remains if the dog can be trained  and perform the training under stress or not. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Prager Hans

@Bravo, goat milk is a super food. :-)

Duke, I agree if what you are saying is that dogs need the genetics for the intended  job...that is what choosing dogs correctly is all about....evaluating and putting the dog where he will work best. That's what selective breeding is supposed to accomplish; to produce dogs with strong nerves that will allow them to work in any situation and genetically balanced drives conducive to the job intended.

The more they have naturally, the better they will perform the job intended, and they will take to the training like a duck to water.

Can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.