Boer goats can help to make emerging farmers successful, and they also have a large local and foreign breeding goat’s market.
The Boer goat is bred to thrive under extensive livestock farming conditions in hot, arid environments where the quality of grazing is poor. The breed has the ability to convert poor-quality forage into meat at a very low cost, enabling livestock farmers in these arid areas to farm commercially.
If you’re looking for an economical meat animal or are interested in making a little extra money, consider raising Boer goat. Boer goats are natural browsers, consuming a variety of plants, shrubs, and trees. Providing access to quality pasture or browse is crucial for their overall health and growth. In areas with limited grazing resources, farmers can supplement with hay or other roughage sources.
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(1). ABUJA: Date: 21-09-24, Time:10am, Venue: Belvoir Hotel, 73, Lome Str, Wuse Zone 7
(2) SAGAMU: Date: 3-09-24, Time: 9am, Sotad Hotel, Venue: Sagamu- Benin Rd, Express Junction Bus-Stop
(3) BENIN-CITY: Date: 4-09-24, Time: 9am, Venue: Hotel Philomena, 19, Okhoro Rd.
(4) WARRI: Date:5-09-24, Time:10am, Venue: Bluewaters Hotel, Nigercat Road, Tanker Park, Ekpan Effurun.
(5) LAGOS: Date: 31-8-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Jovana Demonstration Farm, 42, Osolo Way, off Airport Rd, Ajao Estate
(6) ONITSHA: Date: 8-09-24, Time:11am, Venue: Top Rank Hotel, 75 Zik Avenue.
(7) AWKA: Date: 7-9-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Liberty Hotel, 19 Zik Avenue.
(8) OWERRI: Date: 10-9-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Livestock Specialties, 192 Wetheral Rd.
(9) ASABA: Date: 6-9-24, Time: 10am, Fidmed Hotels, 67, Ibusa Rd.
(10) ENUGU: Date: 17-9-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Jovana Farms, 92/94 Park Ave, GRA.
(11) PORT-HARCOURT: Date: 14-9-24, Time: 10am, Venue: Base Hotel, 33 NTA/CHOBA Rd, Rumuokwuta.
(12) OTA: Date: 24-8-24, Time: 1pm, Venue: Jovana Farms, 7 Ogunlade Str, Tipper Garage, Itele- Ota Rd
(13) EKWULOBIA: Date: 15-9-24, Time: 1pm, Venue: Orthom Palace Hotel, Stadium Rd
(14) ABA: Date: 11-09-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Abia Hotel, 10 Owerri Road
(15) UMUAHIA: Date: 12-09-24, Time: 10am, Venue: Seabia Hotel, 55 Aba Road.
(16) UYO: Date: 13-09-24, Time:10am, Venue: Samlaw Hotel, Ebet Aya Str, off IBB Avenue
(17) NSUKKA: Date:18-09-24, Time:10am, Venue: New Carolina Hotel, 1, Obollo Road, Obukpa
(18) LOKOJA: 19-09-24, Time: 9am, Venue: Kogi Hotel, Opposite Govt House
(19) GWAGWALADA: Date: 20-09-24, Time: 10am, Venue: Atlas Hotel, Secretariat Rd
(20) NNEWI: Date: 26-09-24, Time:11am, Venue: Seymour Hotel, 42 Nnewi- Nnobi Road
(21) IBADAN: Date: 1-11-24, Time:1pm, Venue: Genesis Suites, Challenge-Molete Road, By Fire Station.
(22) AKURE: Date: 30-10-24, Time: 9am, Venue: Metropolitan Guest House, No1, Albert Lane Gbogi, off Oyemekun Rd, behind WEMA Bank, Cathedral Bus-Stop
(23) OSHOGBO: Date: 31-10-24, Time: 10am, Venue: NUJ Press Centre, Iwo Road
(24) ABEOKUTA: Date: 2-11-24, Time: 11am, Venue: Ariya Hotel, 45, Tinubu Str, Ita-Eko, Ibara
THE WORLD FASTEST GROWING GOAT
1.Boer goats originated from South Africa in the early 1900
2.Boer goats have garnered immense popularity in the meat production industry due to their exceptional growth rates and high meat-to-bone ratio
3. Boer goats offer many advantages: they’re an excellent source of meat and milk, resist disease, make good mothers, and adapt to difficult conditions.
4. Boer goats are polyestrous (they can breed throughout the year), and they reach sexual maturity at five months of age. Gives birth to between 1-4 kids {usually 2}
5. Boer goats are prized for their size, rapid weight gain, carcass quality, hardiness, and docility
6. Boer goats are seasonal breeders. Other breeds, like Boers. Come into heat/rut every so often throughout the year. Typically, Boer goats breeders do breed their does twice in a year.
7.Boer goats are known for their hardiness, adaptability, and resistance to diseases. They have a high fertility rate, with a conception rate of about 90% and a kidding rate of about 189%
8. The Boer goat is commonly a goat with a white body with a brown head and ears. Their ears are long, similar in appearance to Nubian goat ears. Boer goats are herbivores and are browsers by nature, preferring brush, shrubs and broadleaf weeds rather than grass.
9. Males attains a weight of up to 170kg while females attain weight of about 80kg
10. Kids can attain weight of 37kg at 90 days if from a good bloodline. Poorer bloodline will attain 16kg at 90 days.
A Boer goat must thrive under extensive conditions, bucks should display a high libido, easily covering does in the veld on natural grazing with minimum inputs. They should walk long distances and convert poor-quality vegetation into healthy lean meat. Does should kid in the veld and raise the kids easily and with minimal intervention by the farmer.
The Boer goat’s low input costs are what drive the profitability of farming with the breed. This is what the commercial producer is looking for. The trend toward stall-feeding will result in substandard genetics becoming more prevalent in the breed, to its detriment.
In Nigeria, Jovana integrated farms and other farmers and import Boer goats as commercial production units or as part of cross-breeding programs with indigenous goats to improve the quality of their flocks.
Here the core Boer goat characteristics of hardiness, fertility, meat-carrying ability and adaptability weigh more heavily in the decision-making process.
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