Our kiko girls are typically allowed to grow for a full year and a half before we place them with a buck. Our goats run on 50 - 100 acres of brush and forage. They have enough forage that we did not even need to hay them in the winter. They stayed fat all winter on forage alone.
Each year we cull off a few goats at weaning, and then again a few months later we decide who stays for breeding stock and who goes to the sale barn as commercial goats.
We only keep about 20% of our bucks to sale or for future herd sires. We are honored that even our vet has been getting his herd sires and live stock guard dogs from us for the past 3 years. |