Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Meat yields on the dual purpose Kinder Goat


The Kinder is a dual purpose goat used for both milk and meat.  The meat aspect has been neglected by many breeders.  Our beloved Kinders have become more dairy in type sacrificing meat production for milk production.  While for many milk is all they want, a breeder needs to keep in mind the fact that usually about half the kids are bucks.  Not all bucks should be kept as bucks.  On average only 1 out of 10 is truly buck quality.  What do you do with the rest of those darling little fellows.  True, you can wether them and sell them as pets or brush clearers but that market saturates fast. 

In our area there are a couple of meat goat buyers.  They pay by the pound and their price depends on the type of goat.  Dairy kids bring less per pound that meat kids.  I have worked on my marketing with the meat goat buyer I use and he knows that my kids pack meat.  I am now getting the same price per pound for my Kinder boys as he pays for the Boer kids. 

If you are planning on slaughtering any kids this year please keep records and let me know what the live weight, carcass weight and actual meat weight wrapped is.

The chart below will show some of the yields that come from well bred Kinder kids.

Kinder goat carcass yields

Live wt. lbs
hanging wt lbs
boneless meat lbs
Doe SH
120
59
33
Doe SH
140
71
41
Doe SH
134
62
32
Wether SH
61.5
30
18
Doe SH
135
67
39
Doe SH
138
68
39
GJ Wether
82
41
23
GJ Buck 17 mos
170
90
45
GJ Doe 18 mos
99
47
30
GJ doe 9 mos
95
43
26
GJ Crytorchid 6 mos
92
51
35
GJ Buck 7 mos
89
49
32
GJ Wether 7 mos
80
44
30
GJ Buck 7 mos
70
39
23


For more information on Kinders as meat goats look in the blog archives in 2012 October Kinders as Meat goats.

Jean Jajan

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