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Butting Heads Ranch (20 Acres) is located near San Augustine. We moved here during November 2002 and fell in love with the Piney Woods Region of East Texas. The goats are a different story, if someone told me that I would be raising goats, I would have laughed: Now we cannot imagine doing anything else! All of our time is spent on fences and barns and we still have 7 acres that needs to be fenced. We feed our goats a mixture of chopped corn, soybean meal, oats and molasses. Occasionally we feed with a 16% medicated goat pellet and when necessary we buy 1000 lb bales of alfalfa. I really like to give the pregnant does alfalfa because they produce a lot more milk which helps their kids to grow out better.

The ranch is the home for 160 head of Kiko and Boer goats, but we all know that that is subject to change with new Kids! We love the newborn kids and the Kiko babies are a blast, from the time they hit the ground they are on the move. Their moms are great at getting them cleaned up and nursing quickly. If they are in a large area with lots of underbrush the moms will hide the kids and they will stay there until mom comes after them. The Kiko's are longer, taller and more resistant to parasites than the Boers. They have excellent bags and plenty of milk, I have never had more then twins out of these girls and that's just fine. The Kiko kids are not born as fat little butterballs, like the Boers, but are fast on their feet and little acrobats. We've spent plenty of time laughing at them.

We've concentrated on building our Kiko herd the last couple of years and are now starting to breed for more Boers. We love the Boers for their size and their disposition and crossing the two breeds makes for a good combination. The kids have more meat and bone mass from the Boer and length and height from the Kiko. In October of 2006 we purchased a buck from John and Cathie Keblinger at their dispersal sale, we are expecting his first kids in October and I'm sure we will not be disappointed. Checkout our herd sire page and have a look at "Tank" who is out of a traditional full blood doe and a full blood black buck that belongs to J.T. Ward of Jacksonville Texas.

We are like everyone else who raises goats, in the fact that we lose some, but two years ago I was told about a product that has cut down on my worming problem tremendously! This has been a big help as we've had as many as 250 head and that's a whole lot of worming and expense. We had 44 girls born in December 2006 with 13 being 100% Kiko; the remainder being 50 and 75% Boer Kiko crosses. At Butting Heads Ranch we choose to breed our young girls when they are 1 to 1 ½ years old this is because we want to give them plenty of time to fill out and mature. We only breed our older does once a year. With so many young girls in the mix we will still have two kidding seasons.

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