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2022 Update: We were doing Nigerian Dwarf goats; David-Ray grew up with, raised and brought down Nigerians. Nigerians are milk goats, but David-Ray has only milked then twice in the 10 years we have been here. He talked about getting Kiko’s to bread into the flock, but never did that either. Then most of his Nigerians dies off, because he didn’t want to give them their de-warmer medicine when they got warms.
I ended up having to take over the goats medical needs; and now that he doesn’t have too many goats of his own and doesn’t act like he cares anymore, I have decided to go in the direction of meat goats. So I now have a new breed I am working on. Kiko/Spanish/Nigerian cross; this will make what I think to be a good meat/milk goat.
Most people like hornless goats, so I will be selling ours or will trade our hornless for ones with horns. Horns help them protect themselves from predators and turned out horns help keep them from getting their heads stuck in things like fencing. Horns also help me handle and control them.
Updated 2021: this is mostly my notes, I’ll update and rewrite later.
David-Ray says that Nigerian Dwarf is the best for our area and Kiko is 2nd. Best. Due to my experience and research, and in talking to the veterinarian’s; I would disagree. Kiko maybe; Nigerian Dwarf, no. Nigerian Dwarfs make good pet goats, yes. But if you have to deworm them more then twice w year, you have a problem. Ideally, you want to only maybe deworm them every 5yrss or once a decade, or never. So more then once a year is bad. It all depends on your setup too. They need tall grass, 4″ or taller; I’d say 6″ to be safe. Rotate them every 21-30days. Have top-three yards to rotate them, minimum. Spanish goats are said to be the best, Kikos would be #2. So that is the new direction we are going in 2021/2022. Thanx, CainO