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Welcome to Uphoffs Boer Goats Web Site
Uphoff Boer Goats began in 1998 when we saw the meat goat market developing at Lexington, NE. Our first buck, the only one we could
find within a 100 mile radius of Lexington was "Andy" a black and white paint 1/2 Boer, 1/2 LaMancha. We still have a couple of his daughters producing in our commercial herd. After Andy came
Hank, our first fullblood registered buck purchased from Donald and Rita Johnston of Grover, CO.
We now keep from 8 to 10 fullblood bucks and use them in our breeding program and lease some of them to other breeders to improve their herds. We offer registered fullblood and
percentage nannies, commercial nannies and dairy nannies to breeders who have goats and to those just starting in the goat business. We pride ourselves in our post-sale support of new and
existing breeders, keeping them abreast of new developments in the meat goat industry and helping them through health problems that occur from time to time.
Our bucks include: Sonora Redneck and Sonora Bullet purchased from Marvin Shurley of Sonora, TX; and Texas Traveler and Texas Warrior purchased from Coni Ross of Blanco, TX. Bucks that we
have raised in our own program include: Uphoff's Elmer Fudge, and Easter Egg, sons of Sonora Redneck, and Uphoff's Goodenberger, a son of Uphoff's Elmer Fudge. You can see pictures of all of them on our Bucks Page.
Our fullblood nannies have come from Troy Powell, Donald Johnston and Marvin Shurley and some that we have raised ourselves by Redneck and Killdeer. Most of our percentage nannies
are either daughters or granddaughters of Hank with a strong dairy, mostly Nubian base.
As we have matured along with the meat goat industry we have seen an increasing need for bucks that will go into commercial and registered herds and increase their weaning weights. So, we are
concentrating our efforts in producing this type of buck for our customers. You will notice that we list each goat's weaning weight in it's description on our For Sale page. One of our goals is to
wean some 100 pound billy kids at 90 days of age and nanny kids at 90 pounds at 120 days. To this end we have purchased Sonora Bullet from Marvin Shurley, Texas Goat Flock, Sonora, TX. Bullet
was the highest gaining buck in the American Meat Goat Association 2004-2005 Range Buck Test. He went on test on November 1, 2004 weighing 110 pounds and came off test 200
days later at 220 pounds for an average daily gain of .55 pounds. The closest goat to him gained .4 pound.
We will incorporate Bullet's talents into our existing program, crossing him on daughters of Hank, Traveler, Redneck and others.
The meat goat industry is the fastest growing and one of the most profitable of all agricultural entities. One of the most quotable quotes we've heard about this segment of agriculture came from a
County Extension Educator who said, "When you add meat goats to your operation you don't have to take anything else away. If you're raising corn and decide to start raising soybeans you have
to raise less corn, but, if you add meat goats you don't have to take anything else out." Meat goats can be a great project for a stay at home mom or youngsters in a family. Many commercial
goat operations have grown into a very profitable entity from a few goats that were purchased for 4H projects for the children in the family. Another positive note about the future of the meat goat
industry came from another government official who said, "Everyone moving into the United States are goat meat eaters." So the future remains bright for serious meat goat breeders.
At Uphoff's we want to help our present and future customers increase their profits through the purchase of our breeding bucks and does. To assist our customers to gain their goals in the meat
goat industry we provide support in the management area of their goats. We thank you for visiting our web site and hope we can be of service to you sometime soon.
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