I get what you're saying here...they'd be small, but they'd pack a whole lot of meat in a very small package.MidnightChickenLover said:
It's a neat concept, but here's the problem...
It's only a neat concept until that animal goes to sale, at which point I gaurantee you that it would be TOTALLY LOST on the kill buyer.. He's not gonna look at that animal and think "Hey, I bet that animal would dress out at a higher percentage than your average boer..." Instead, he's gonna look at it in terms of total pounds dressed, and the smaller it is, the less it's going to dress out.
Like, if you could design a breed that dressed out at 60%, that's great...but if it only weighs 20lbs, that's still only 12lbs of meat to be had. To the kill buyer comparing that with one that weighs 60lbs and yields 24lbs of meat, the bigger animal yields 200% of the meat as the smaller one. It may 3-times the money for 2-times the meat, but the smaller animal is also gonna require nearly as much time on the table as the larger animal, it's gonna yield smaller cuts, and -- let's face it -- if you need x-pounds of meat, it's probably better to get it with only as many tenuous heartbeats as are absolutely necessary.
I *do* get what you're saying, though.. And if you can find folks out there looking to raise just a little bit of goat meat for their own table in their own small backyards, it might be a good cross...but I'm thinking there aren't a whole big bunch of folks out there doing that.
Cute!
