Australian boer goat breeders

Red and Kalahari reds come in all shades of brown from a sandy colour to a dark brown nearly black, and black boers. Red goats blend in with there surrondings and are harder to find by predators A small percentage of black goats are bred from Kalahari, and red boer goats. they are registered with the boer goat society of Australia, There are more black goats registered in the USA where they have been selecting for black for several years.

. We run a small herd of Red and black boers and Kalahari's , goats are browers they graze the rough grasses and fallen branches. Kalahari Reds Blacks and Aussie Reds are bred from fullblood boer goats, Registered with the Boergoat Breeders Ass. The Kalahari's ancestors came from the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. The commercial breed in Australia is still close to the natural gene pool of the desert goats, bringing all the benefits from centuries of natural selection. Innately hardy and naturally adaptable, these goats are much less susceptible to disease and parasite infestations than other breeds. Their background as desert animals has also given them unequalled ability to thrive in varied and poor conditions, their colour makes them less prone to airborne predators and they have exemplary mothering ablilities.

Red Kalahari does . Their dark coats and long ears provide good heat resistance, and they can feed for longer, during he heat of the day, which means higher weight gains.

The Kalahari red has a number of qualities that lend itself the Australian terrain such as its colour, that acts as a camouflage from predators such as eagles and dingos, its productiveness but most importantly its hardiness. It seems to thrive in harsher conditions where most other breeds won't.

Red Boer goats goats and Kalahari reds come in all shades of red, with all the unique advantages that this brings. Their earthy colour provides a good camouflage that protects them from predators. Fully pigmented, and therefore able to endure heat and strong sunshine.

Group of adult coloured Stud and Commercial fullblood bucks.

Sale Barn101 Ben Cartwright of "Ponderosa" fame is the 70 plus Troy Powell, of Benjamin, TX. Troy ran around the Charolais and Limousin barns a few times before inventing the Fullblood Black Boer Goat. When Shelby and I went to pick up our four Red starter does I failed to bring my urban cowboy Yankee decoder ring. Even though I had faithfully watched every episode of 'Hop Sing' and 'Hoss' and listened to their dialog I misheard several key phrases in Troy's Black Boer Goat story. Troy was comparing his goats to the popularity of black limousins while I thought white limo's were favored unless you were on your way to the cemetery. And I didn't immediately understand how Troy produced black goats through Lion breeding. But when he got to the part about the Moslems sacrificing goats, as a new home sales counselor in a subdivision sandwiched between two Mosques, I knew that part of his story was right on. The Lions and limo's I left to Shelby to figure out. The legend has the Texan cattle breeder placing $15,000 bets on five embryos imported from Australia. One of the bryo's turns out to be a chocolate colored buck Troy names," Major League". East of the Mississippi we would have at least got back our $15K for the brown goat. A New Yorker would have sued for the whole $60,000 plus damages. Troy as the quintissential gambling man spends another $30,000 in Oklahoma to acquire the only other brown embryo import which he calls, "Hershey Where the buffalo had roamed. Where half of the nation's hogs and cattle are fed and bled, Shelby Brown, livestock farmer wannabee was now going to populate the landscape of her forefathers with fullblood Black Boer goats.