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Principles
- Discipline:
In working with high priced imported bloodlines it is tempting
to deviate from production standards so as to save high value
individual animals. This can lead to the proliferation
of mediocre individual goats with very expensive pedigrees. In
order to produce “working” goats, not “trading” goats, fancy
pedigree or not, we have committed to a rigorous selection
program, only keeping and offering for sale the best producers.
Pedigree alone does not make a profitable goat.
- Running a working farm with working goats:
Accurate records are critical. Pounds of market kid per doe
weaned is the real test of doe performance.
- The same conditions are in place for every breed and
individual: We run our breeds and crosses in mixed groups, in
pens and pastures. Feeding and management are the same for all
goats and identical for each doe group. This is to assure that
we are measuring relative goat genetic performance and not
environmental or feed variables. For example, we measure
groups of does that kid in the same 30 day interval, so that
summer or winter, indoors or on pasture, the relative
performance of each doe is not skewed by summer vs. winter
conditions.
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