How To Register Boer Goats

A good rule of thumb however is that pedigree for a given goat is only as good as the man giving you the paper.

How to register boer goats. Even a half blood boer is registerable if the sire was a full blood. The pedigrees give our goats some of their value. Whether they ve been validated are in route to the server or have been submitted or you re still working on them. If a breeder can t or won t produce registration papers that is cause for concern. We maintain a national register of standard boers red boers.

Boer goat australia membership is open to all whether you are a serious breeder or hobbyist. Boer goats have a very high fertility rates compared to other goat breeds. Because of the intense selective breeding over the past 50 years or more by south african goat breeders the boer goat is considered far superior to any other. The term boer refers to the descendants of the dutch immigrants or boers most of them farmers who settled the country. Male boer goats are used for breeding and meat production and the female are for producing kids.

Register a goat help after you have signed on to abga online member services and you choose to register a goat you will see the following screen. If the buck is too young to be registered ask for the registration for his parents. A goat that does not have any proof of genetic bloodlines of the sire and dam proof being a copy of their registration papers issued by us boer goat australia or the boer goat breeders association of australia will only be eligible for registration on the upgrade register. An adult male boer goat weights about 110 135 kg and an adult female boer weights about 90 100 kg. Thus boer goat simply means farmer s goat.

All full blooded boer goats are registerable. Registration of pedigrees and tracking our goat s genetic heritage is the primary reason that most people join the american boer goat association.