Boer goats are generally friendly, curious, intelligent, beautiful, and hardy goats that are alot of fun to raise.  They are also an awesome way to supplement your income.  Boer goats are very hardy and grow and mature quickly.  It is not uncommon to wean a kid at 60-90 days weighing 50 lbs or more, depending on the quality of your goats.  We creep feed our kids from the beginning so that they get a good growth start.  We sell most of our buck kids as wethers at weaning, and most of our doe kids at weaning as breeding stock.  We also sell a few show does each year. Check out our Goat Show Winners page for pictures.

We are beginning to introduce colored boer goats into our herd. I love the Red/Paint boer does like most women that I talk to.  Some of our main foundation does carry the color gene.  These boer does include:  Patches, Starburst, Rising Star, Memphis Belle, Precious Patches, Little Patches, CeeJay, and CeeCee. By breeding these paint does to Pride and Storm we expect to see even more paints in our herd.  We are beginning to breed our does at about 7 mos or 70 lbs.  Norman Kohls, a major breeder, suggests breeding the does according to these guidelines.  You do have to feed your doe kids well if you plan to breed them at 7 mos because you need them to continue growing well in addition to delivering healthy kids.   Most mature boer goat does deliver healthy, cute twins or triplets each year.  Some yearling does have twins as their first set of kids.  In general, most boer does make excellent mothers with nice, high bags full of rich milk.  They are often very protective of their kids at least for the first few days.  I remember trying to help a new mom get the afterbirth off of a kid that was smothering.  The doe let me know quickly with a good butt to the shoulder that she could handle things on her own. 

We have learned alot over the last few years. We are not vets, but we can share some information that has helped us. We struggled with floppy kid until we heard Normal Kohls speak at a seminar in Goldthwaite, Texas. He suggested 2 cc penicillin orally as soon as we noticed the weak kids laying on their sides helpless. I don't think we have lost a single kid to floppy kid since that. That was a wonderful tidbit of information because we lost alot of kids before we learned this simple treatment. Another helpful piece of advice was to always give your yearly CD&T shot to your pregnant does about 1 month before kidding. This helped protect the kids until they are old enough to vaccinate, at approximately 3 weeks old. We always give the followup booster as well. It doesn't cost much to vaccinate, and if you can prevent a single death by vaccinating, one kid can pay for the whole herd's shots for the entire year.

The other important thing we learned the hard way was to worm your does regularly, especially during the rainy season, and always if your boer goats are confined. We try to feed in troughs so that our goats are not eating off the ground, but sometimes the only practical way to feed out in the pasture is with large peanut cubes that a goat can pick up off the ground easily. It helps to spread the feed out and choose a different location each time you feed cubes on the ground. Our boer goats love to eat alfalfa hay, and we try to suspend it from hay racks up off the ground. If you have ever seen goats eat hay then I am sure you know that lots will end up on the ground underneath them. It is good to keep this contaminated hay raked up as much as possible so that the goats don't eat it off the ground.

Please visit our South African Boer Goat Bucks Page for information about our Herd Sires.

We have enjoyed raising and listing good boer goats for sale in Texas. If you have questions about boer goats, or you would like to buy boer goats, we can help! All of our boer goats for sale are either registered as Fullblood or Percentage Boer Goats unless otherwise noted on the goats for sale pages. We believe that registration of boer goats is important, especially if you plan to breed up your goats and sell them as breeding or show stock. This allows you more freedom when you begin selling your kids.

Thanks for visiting our website. We hope that you have learned some helpful information about boer goats. They really are very profitable to raise, even if you are only selling meat goats to slaughter. If you have any questions or would like to start a herd of boer goats, please contact us. We would be glad to help you get started!