Suggestions for milk goats...

[kstaven]

I found the same thing with Toggenburgs. A few really great lines and a lot of registered stock that are pathetic milk producers. Just because it is registered doesn't mean it is a great goat. That is one thing any buyer should be aware of.

 

[Roll farms]

We have a Boer x Kiko doe who produces 12# of milk per day, and some fancy pedigreed Nubs who don't produce 6# a day.
One thing I have found w/ boers is they usually don't have the longer lactation that dairy goats have, simply b/c they've not been bred for hundreds of years to have longer lactations....their bodies say, "Hey...it's been 3 mos...slow down" b/c they know the kids should be weaned around then.

There are no hard and fast "these kind do this, and these kind do that" rules...it's like stereotyping humans by race, or dogs by breed.

I will say, temperament-wise, I DO adore the Oberhasli.

 

[cmjust0]

Boers have no problem milking. And I'd love to milk a Nubyxboer. That gives you flexibility - if you want kids for the freezer, join her to a boer. If you want more milkers, join her to a nuby

I can maybe help you out with that come Spring..

We've got an 81% Boer doe with nice, correct udders and plenty of milking ability and we're gonna cross her to a 100% registered Nubian buck this fall. She's an easy keeper, too, with even some ennobled blood in her pedigree.

The threw triplets last time when crossed to a different Nubian buck...two doelings and a buckling, and she raised them all. We bottlefed the little buckling starting when he was about 5 weeks just because we had extra milk and were worried that maybe her milk production would just fall off a cliff or something...she seemed too good to be true, after all the stories we'd heard about boers running dry. Funny thing was, the little wether would run over and nurse his mama dry after taking a 24oz bottle from us..

We never weaned them...she did...but only when they were big enough to raise and hold her hind-end up off the ground when they wedged in for milk. She wasn't out of milk either...just tired of being batted around like a ragdoll.

One of her doelings turned into quite an impressive animal...moreso than her sister, though her sister isn't half bad. The really impressive one, though, is muscled like a Boer, but taller, and she's got two nice, long, correctly placed teats like you'd see on a nubian yearling doe. She's gorgeous, too...correctly patterned for a Boer, but blonde instead of red..

Needless to say, we're super excited to breed her, just to see what kind of mama she turns out to be. If she does well crossed back to a nubi, we're probably gonna cross her back to a Boer buck with good genetics and see if that won't make a couple of whopping nice kids.

 

[username taken]

lol now how are you gonna get her to me? LOL

I've actually just recently acquired a 50% boer 50% alpine doe, who I will probably be keeping to raise up for my home milker. Due to circumstances I'm going to probably sell all my milkers except one - I'll be keeping mainly my angoras and a few boers, and one milker for the fridge.

I like milking boers and boer crosses, and yes some pure boers wont have extended lactations but on the other hand, I've got a doe who will insist on feeding her kids till 2 yrs old unless I wean them

So you can find very very milky boers

Boers and boer crosses are also more laid back and less high maintenance, compared with the pure dairy girls

 

[cmjust0]

lol now how are you gonna get her to me? LOL

UPS.



I don't even know where you are, actually.

Boers and boer crosses are also more laid back and less high maintenance, compared with the pure dairy girls

The boer/nubi cross that seems so stellar has the nubian personality. She's low maintenance so far as health goes -- great example of hybrid vigor -- but unlike her mama, brother, and sister, she's got that nubian BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! The rest just kinda 'bahahaha' in little soft tones and only if they really, really want something, but this one screams like a banshee..

:/

 

[username taken]

I don't even know where you are, actually

AUSTRALIA!

roflmao

 

[lilhill]

 

[cmjust0]

I don't even know where you are, actually

AUSTRALIA!

roflmao

...could be a problem...