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Old 09/11/10, 12:50 PM
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USBGA Native on Appearance Registration - worth it?

Okay, folks. We've just got backyard grade meat goats... most of our does are grade Boers and the offspring of said grade Boer does. We've toyed around with going from backyard meant-just-to-supply-our-family-with-meat-and-dairy to expanding becoming more than just a hobby. Obviously if we wanted to register further generations, we'd need to buy or breed to a fullblood Boer buck, but... is it worth registering does at Native on Appearance through the USBGA?

Anyone here have experience doing that? Pros? Cons? Enlighten me.

(And thank you for your input either way! I don't know what I'd do without you guys...)
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Old 09/11/10, 01:28 PM
 
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any of the groups will let you register a registered bucks offsprings as 50% but I can tell you unless it says ABGA or IBGA good luck selling on papers, and not even so much as IBGA.
Quite frankly unless you have the money to put into fancy goats and loose money on them its not a sound return investment. I did use a nice full blood buck because i got heavy kids and if there was one or so that came out great then I would sell or dontate them to the 4 h but I never made any more off them than I did the others and papers are expensive.
Its one of those games if you cant run with the big dogs its better to raise what they are, meat goats. I tried but when they are taking one doe, harvesting her eggs, implanting them into 50 other does to make these super kids all at once few can compete with that.
Some may have other opinions but thats what i went though. Meat goats I actually had more money coming in on
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