Dairy & Meat Goats

    Milk formed from a well-bred, healthy goat is virtually indistinguishable from cows milk in taste.  Many people who are allergic to cows milk can digest it without a reaction.  The milk also lacks the aggulutinin that causes cream in cows to gather and rise to the top giving us a naturally homogenized product.  Goats milk forms a softer curd that many people find easier to digest.

    In any dairy operation, a kid that you don't need as a replacement can become a liability.  It needs to be fed, which takes time, equipement, and money.

    Producers who sell surplus kids for meat often raise those born during the sumer to market weight by ketting them nurse on their dams, if the milk in not wanted.  The abattoirs want a goat approximatly 20-25kg liveweight.  But inorder for the abattoirs to slaughter the kids, the market must exist.