Goat breeds (meat types)

Question 1

Goat meat breed:
- horned with lop ears and showing variety of colors
- doe is a low maintenance animal that has sufficient milk to rear a kid that is early maturing
- has a 0.44 daily gains in feed lot
- kidding rate of 200% in this breed

Answer 1

Boer goat

Question 2

Goat meat breed:
- Also known as Brush goats
- most are horned, horned bucks are mostly used, polled goats are not used because of hermaphrodism
- flighty disposition if raised extensively - can make them hard to handle

Answer 2

Spanish Goat

Question 3

Goat meat breed:
- Wooden leg goat
- when frightened or excited the “locked up”’ or faint for a few seconds
- heavy rumped deep chested animals
- most are black and white but multi colors are uncommon
- Seasonal breeders, easy kidders, and have good milk production: 2 kiddings a year.

Answer 3

Myotonic Goat

Question 4

Goat meat breed:
- has two types of breed
1. coarse haired type: cream, tan, or light and is polled
2. Fine hair: black or brown, and have white belt, and usually horned.

Answer 4

Philippine Goat