KIKO GOATS                   

WHY RAISE KIKOS?

There are many breeds of goats to choose from, but our choice has been the Kiko.  They are not a pretty goat, most are white in color, and less fat in the butt area, but they yield just as much or more meat than any other goat of different breeds. 

We have found less worming problems, hoof trimming, and the does are great mothers.  We have never had to pull a kiko, but have a boer, I have lost boer goats to worming problems, the kiko can sustain a much greater worm load.  A kiko buck can cover twice as many does as a boer and there is not all the rituals, the kiko just goes to work.  They will browse, even in the winter to find food.  We have found the boer is always waiting to be fed.

Everyone needs to pick the goat you will enjoy raising the most, but when going for a meat goat we suggest the kiko.  Additional facts as to why I like the Kiko, and I may be repeating myself, but I find these points important enough to reiterate:

1.  Speed of Growth.  A rapid rate of growth

2.  Does have improved fertility over herd average

3.  Twinning ability is a significant characteristic of the does

4.  Enhanced nutritional availability for offspring

5.  Kiko kids exhibit great vigor from birth and the Kiko also has an extended breeding season.  The Kiko demonstrates an ability to breed all year long

6.  Ease of maintenance with minimal input

7.  Soundness of feet

8.  Easy care kidding 

9.  Enhanced male virility.  A single male can cover up to five hundred females in an extended season