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Commercial Meat Goat Herd Sires - $749 (San Angelo)
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10 Registerable Fullblood/Purebred Boer bucks from the top testing herd at the Angelo State University Meat Goat Performance Test. Priced $749 each. Born December 2024/January 2025.
We breed for commercially valuable traits (parasite resistance, rapid weight gain, mothering ability, small mature size/high production, ability to thrive on pasture with little/no care, etc.) none of which are observable by looking at a photo or even the goat in person. These are not show stock, nor marketed as such. If that is what you want, these aren't what you are looking for.
Our kids generally gain .1 lb per day more than the average daily gain for kids produced under the same conditions. Do the math. 120 days x 50 kids x .1 lb/day = 600 more pounds of kids to sell at weaning per kid crop. At $3/lb live weight x 600 pounds = $1,800 extra profit, bucks that cost $749 don't sound too expensive now do they? Maybe I should raise the price...
Talking with big producers out here many are going with straight Spanish goats because "the Boers aren't good mothers." Talking with the order buyers, they have little interest in Spanish goat kids and prefer Boer x kids.
The problem with Boer goats isn't that they aren't good mothers. That is one of the traits they were specifically bred for originally. The problem is these producers buying their sires from show goat breeders who were selling every goat that hit the ground for so much money that it was a tragedy if even one died. Consequently they put every doe that was about to kid in a tiny pen with video and audio surveillance, so they could run out there and assist with every birth so they didn't lose a single kid they could sell for $10K+. It's a mystery why those Boer goats are in general terrible mothers (sarcasm).
My Boers have always kidded out on pasture without my assistance, and the ones that didn't wean kids got culled. We don't have Boers who are lousy mothers in my herd because the ones who aren't good mothers get culled and they didn't produce any kids.
The solution to the problem is buying Boers bred for commercially valuable traits, not to look pretty in the show ring. I just happen to have a bunch of them.
Pictures taken April 28, 2025 and May 28, 2025. Featured photo shows the sires these bucks are out of. They are not for sale.